The irony in a Chinese company trying to use the US Constitution to save itself... I don't necessarily agree with the method of trying to get them to divest, but their reaction is amusing.
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TikTok Sues U.S. Government Over Bill Requiring Sale
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Those are different since they weren’t actively scooping your private data. The issue with TikTok isn’t its content.
less ironic than us ourselves not practicing our constitution?
Our own vehicles today take more data from us than even search engines do...?
Yep. And that should be regulated. Again, the issue is not the content on TikTok. It’s the lack of a regulatory framework that protects people from predatory data mining no matter who’s doing it.
China can ban outright any US company from China (ie Meta, YouTube, Instagram, etc), but yet when we do the same the Chinese get upset.
Make you a deal, China: unban our companies and I will support unbanning yours.
Make you a deal, China: unban our companies and I will support unbanning yours.
Sort of. Also part of the issue is that TikTok is a fad that mostly young people are obsessed with, while many older American cannot understand the obsession. Like comic books in the 1950’s and video games in the 1980’s.
The privacy concerns are shared with Facebook Instagram Snapchat etc
The foreign influence concerns are shared with Telegram
But the current government obsession seems to be just about TikTok
Now it’s time to ban Facebook, Instagram, Twitter for nation security because they are selling our data to foreign adversaries
Right. The emotional angle is being used in a similarly cynical way to frighten clueless parents and grandparents. But the actual underlying issue with the app is not the content it carries.
Sorry China but despite Biden's willingness to let you spy on us, Congress has more common sense and has rightly told you to **** off.
Makes me question what news sources you frequent.
I think you’re being sarcastic, It’s pretty obvious what the news sources he watches. Although it’s debatable, if it’s actually news, even though news are in the name
While ignoring every other app that does similar things?
Multiple things can be true at once and Romney specifically said they’re banning TikTok because they can’t control the pro-Palestine sentiment it generates.
As you say, all of those social media companies are meddling with politics, but only TikTok is being targeted. Even if the spyware allegations are true, you have two high ranking politicians saying that it’s political content that is causing them to ban the app, and that is a clear violation of the first amendment. Like I said, they gave the game away.
Further evidence that the focus on TikTok is political theater. The real danger is the way that apps and websites and our cars and our fridges collect gargantuan amounts of data on us which can then be freely sold through data brokers to the highest bidder. The US also buys data from data brokers: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/p...-from-data-brokers-violating-recent-ftc-order. There is nothing stopping these data brokers from selling to the CCP or any foreign government.
So the issue here isn’t data collection or spyware. If it were, the conversation would span the entire tech industry because it’s pervasive. The laser focus on TikTok makes it clear that this is politically motivated above and beyond the claims of data safety.
It’s laughable how many people have bought into the obvious facade that TikTok is being banned because of data safety. The orientalism in this country is off the charts.
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They will lose but China won't retaliate against Apple, it would be a spiting in the sky moment. Apple manufactures in China, China will not hurt that partnership.
I’m not voting for Biden…but how do you think government works? This bill was worked on by Democrats and Republicans, they were equally excited to limit freedom of speech.
But..you realize anything done by congress is irrelevant without the President—right?
They wouldn't want to do that then they loose all the manufacturing there, would hurt their economy even more then.
The fact that China doesn't even allow this app in their country is enough justification itself imo. There are so many reasons TikTok just needs to go away but this is obviously a big one to take it out of China's hands. Let China run their own apps and the US run theirs, I am fine with that.
This is such odd logic. First, there is a version of TikTok that exists in China (or at least an app owned and run by ByteDance that has the same functionality as TikTok even if the name is different), and the reason for that is fairly obvious. China doesn't want its population to have uncontrolled access to western media, and having TikTok would give people access to western content creators, which is also why all the other social networks are banned and the nationwide Chinese firewall exists.
Second, what is your argument here? Why do you think China doesn't allow TikTok? It can't be because it's spyware because if it were it would be Chinese spyware and the CCP has zero issue with their own spying. If you think China has banned TikTok because TikTok is data mining for private purposes then you should be using China's banning of Meta apps and Twitter as arguments to ban those apps in the US as well, because they do as much data mining as TikTok.
So, which is it?
That's not what he said. Nor would it matter, since Romney had no hand in writing the bill.
Lol I shouldn't even ask because I'm sure the answer is gonna be bananas, but in what way is the US "worse" than China?
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The Fourth Amendment restrains the federal and state government from unlawful searches and seizures, not private companies.