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Senate passes bill forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signature. Biden expected to sign on Wed. (apnews.com)
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[–] 49 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

I don’t really use TikTok but I really hope this gets tossed by the courts. I don’t care if ByteDance is owned by cthulus and draculas, it’s a terrible precedent to have the government ban a media company. If we don’t like China having access to data, ban apps from collecting it in the first place. Require algorithm audits. There are so many better ways to handle this than singling out TikTok.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Everybody talks about Facebook like they’re owned by the American government. They’re not. I’m sure the US government gets massive amounts of data from them, but they can’t control Facebook in the way China can control Tik Tok. And much of their surveillance is public with warrants whereas China does not need to follow any of that.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    If you think the Chinese government doesn’t have its hand directly up in Tik Tok, you’re absolutely fooling yourself. China has much more direct control over companies, well beyond what the US government has.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago

    So this bill is not going to do anything but require ByteDance to sell the tiny small insignificant minuscule 1% that the Chinese government owns and in no way uses to influence how the company is run.

    Sounds like it’s no big deal!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Don't forget, control the sale of data too. Audits etc to make sure they comply with privacy safeguards, and so on.

    This is just pandering as well as, I suspect, to give a corporate donor a profit-making business.

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