They should take it up with ByteDance/TikTok directly then, rather than blaming the law. It’s not the law’s responsibility that ByteDance/TikTok opts for a shutdown instead of divestment. If you were affected by a corporation who chooses to disregard the law, would you hold the law accountable or the corporation who chooses to ignore it?
They collect data from other social media as well. Like Facebook, who by the way is one of the biggest lobbiest for this. Gee, I wonder why. This is an attempt to remove the competition that leans towards free speech.
But then why treat one corporation differently?
But the other platforms are all US owned. And therefore easily controlled. TikTok is not. And that's the issue. The others have consistently shown themselves in recent years to be compliant on speech issues, and to side with gov't on free speech generally. Also, crucially, the reason TikTok is on the chopping block is because the Dems changed sides due to perceived anti-semitism on TikTok. But of course, it wasn't anti-semitism. It was criticism of the state of Israel for engaging in genocide. We are forcing the sale of TikTok therefore because we don't like ppl saying Israel is engaging in genocide. it's that simple.
And now China will be forced to use meta and x instead. I see that as a significant enhancement.
This is not at all to do with Taiwan. That's all propaganda. China can just buy any data it wants right now from Meta and X. There is no military strategic advantage gained by China due to TikTok not being owned by a US company.
They can not use X and/or a Meta platform the same way they could have used TikTok. It's not even close.
Well, that's not true. It's less about data and more about influence. TikTok offers the Chinese government direct unrestricted influence over millions of Americans.
Sure they can. Only now China will have to pay some 💰.
If Zuck or Musk ever get caught working for the Chinese government, they better got a lot of money for it.
They would be selling an unregulated product. They wouldn’t be responsible for how it’s used. If anything, Trump will give them a medal for selling an American made product to a foreign country.
The ban doesn't apply to accessing the app/service, but getting initial access to it (ie removing it from the app stores). At least this initial law/wave anyway.
Actually, if you read the Twitter files and Jacob Siegels reporting on Tablet, it is very obvious that they are way too controlled. So much so that they do violate freedom of speech on the regular!
www.tabletmag.com
Well, firstly, that is not the argument that regulators are using against TikTok. To the contrary, the concern they express is one about national security, data scraping and spying. However, to speak to your point, I have never seen influence by China of this nature. Whereas I see massive evidence of such influence by the governments of the US and Europe.
www.tabletmag.com
Compared to what we are doing to ourselves? No. There's no evidence to back up what you are saying. Whereas there is tons of evidence that the west is self-submitting to a massive amount of censorship. Why should we worry about China?
www.tabletmag.com
I have a feeling we are already starting to go in circles. Let me just put it that way. The US, EU and China are not the same concerning the possible influence over American citizens. The US is no adversary/enemy of itself (at least I hope so), the EU definitely is no adversary of the US but China definitely is a adversary of the US and can very quickly become an enemy of the US. So it is of vital importance now to limit and tightly control any influence the Chinese government can exert over the American people.Well, firstly, that is not the argument that regulators are using against TikTok. To the contrary, the concern they express is one about national security, data scraping and spying. However, to speak to your point, I have never seen influence by China of this nature. Whereas I see massive evidence of such influence by the governments of the US and Europe.
See this article by Jacob Siegel. While he is a conservative and I am a leftist, I totally agree with him on this:
"Since 2016, the federal government has spent billions of dollars on turning the counter-disinformation complex into one of the most powerful forces in the modern world: a sprawling leviathan with tentacles reaching into both the public and private sector, which the government uses to direct a “whole of society” effort that aims to seize total control over the internet and achieve nothing less than the eradication of human error."
A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century
Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation
