The problem is the US government gave TikTok too much time...January 19th? Ban them now and let them sue to come back.
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TikTok Sues U.S. Government Over Bill Requiring Sale
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Everyone keeps trumpeting the First Amendment (and the 2nd on MR😉). Poor Fourth Amendment gets no love.😠 I don't want TikTok to illegally search my device. Full Stop!😤
Force TikTok to remove all unnecessary permissions. Why would it need access to your locations, what other apps are running, install packages🤬 (no, just no), and automatically load itself up for? Permissions requirements should be bare minimum.
I don't have TikTok installed, thank the Lawd. I've got no dog in this fight, but I will die on this hill on principle alone.🤨
Tomorrow's headline: U.S. Government Signs New Bill Banning Foreign Companies From Suing It
They'd probably only sell it to a company that licenses it from them in the US only.
Correlation is not causation but Romney literally said it was causation, not correlation. He specifically said that the TikTok ban was pushed through in response to significant pro-Palestine sentiment defeating Israeli PR through TikTok. It is in plain English. Any prior attempts were basic saber rattling to look tough on China and were not any kind of priority.
And you can bet TikTok is going to use that clip as evidence in their favor in the lawsuit. If I were their lawyer I’d be sending Romney a gift basket for those comments.
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Right. Similar to how they don’t allow your western intelligence agency-backed loser assortment of garbage websites in their country and you people complain that Chinese people don’t have freedom of speech. You people always want it both ways.
Because nobody in practice cares about the phony specter of racism. Only liars and really dishonest and fake people on the internet.
Yes. Since an angry man with a funny mustache did some bad stuff like 80 years ago, it means we need to shut down discussion on the war crimes taking place in Gaza on part of their genocidal Israeli terrorist subjugators.
but you do know they have to ask the user for each permission and theres no way to force them to agree to any of it?
They were trying to ban it before because they’re not up on Loser Moron Hill in Washington busy kissing rings and whatever else. Similar to how Apple doesn’t go to DC in the volume their parasite comrades in Silicon Valley do, therefore the DOJ is threatening Apple with phony antitrust laws.
Well Apple isn’t trying to steal their assets the US government is. 🙄
Imagine China asking Apple to sell itself for the exact same reason.
The TikTok logo always triggers in me a visceral reaction that there's a registration problem.
And in the 1950’s they want to ban comic books, and in the 1980’s they wanted to ban video games…
It’s basically impossible though. Once the secret sauce algorithm is out, there’s no way to prove where it was used. We don’t know what Tesla FSD code is for example or where it came from.
That is because you have to view it with 3D glasses
They don't have to sell themselves; they can just withdraw from the US market. And we can easily imagine the reaction to that, just by noting that Facebook is banned by China.
Is it me or it is absolutely hilarious that China's ByteDance is using USA Free Speech for their defense for not being shut down? 🤣
The correct way to address any concerns is to pass a law that prohibits "data sharing" of any kind by anyone. The law might say that information about a person belongs to that person. A law like that could solve all the problems but Google and Facebook would fight it to the end. All we Americans can hope for is that such a law gets passed in Europe
As you're laughing, read your local university school paper for a second.
Because the United States isn’t a brutal totalitarian dictatorship.
Multiple things can be true at once. Also, I feel like I've seen this "using social media to manipulate response for political agendas" tactic before... oh yes! it was from the democrats. I think if the tech companies were honestly held responsible for their "meddling" in political or foreign affairs issues, they'd all be shut down. But we all know that won't happen. The gate seems to swing only one way these days.
This. The idea that TikTok is the only app doing this is absurd. There are LOTS of others. The issue isn’t TikTok. The issue is the lack of a regulatory framework around apps.