POV: It's January 19th

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TikTok have complied with every single inquiry and request of the government, like the censorship of covid deniers, info about neo nazis including their private messages…! The inquiry of the congress pretty much started with this

Its probably facebook that bribe… I mean donated to both parties to make this happen

Chemical Wonka

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But… US companies are allowed to sell the data of citizens to other countries? Do they want some taxes before they give arbitrary your info that is literally unusable for anything aside from customizing ads

This argument bleeds from so many wounds! With how much could have Cuckerberg bribe both parties?

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And as soon as the government wants it, most companies hand it right over.

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Right? Now do Facebook.

Cruxifux

Americans complaining about other countries meddling in their affairs is such a hilarious hypocrisy. You guys have been the worst for ruining other countries around the world.

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I found it interesting that this tiktok regulations hit peak fervor around the time that youths were using tiktok to full grasp the severity of the israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

We need broad regulation for social media in the US, not cherry picked fervor for political reasons.

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And it doesn't matter who or why, either - as soon as someone hoards other people's data, someone else will try to steal it.

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This article from 2024 gives a pretty good rundown as to why using this reasoning to ban Tiktok will set a very bad precedent:

Legal experts say a TikTok ban without specific evidence violates the First Amendment

The Justice Department is expected to argue that its clamp down on TikTok is about national security, but Constitutional lawyers say there is no way around grappling with the free speech implications.

NPR (www.npr.org)

If the govt cared about your data privacy, they would create data collection regulations that they could then use to ban tiktok if/when they violate them.

Disclaimer: I am not saying Tiktok is a great app with zero issues. This is a concern about causing long term problems by using a short term easy solution.

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Well, at this point, the line between business and government in the US is almost non-existent.

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"It's okay that the CCP pushes propaganda because billionaires do it too" - Tiktok defenders

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That was the catalyst that made them realize they didn't have the sway to control the narrative on tik Tok and that they had to destroy it.

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Problem is that insta also had the same content and plenty of folks saw it there too.

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Jokes on you, I use lemmy

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It'd be much more surprising to see the Awmerican government manipulating the algorithms etc to push propoganda narratives whereas it's a pretty safe assumption that's the case on tiktok.

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FreeDumb️

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The last panel also hurts us - fellow non-americans

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What kind of propaganda is the CGP pushing, exactly? Is it with us in the room, right now?

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Lemmy begs to differ

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This is not news,

This has been known for years.

I promise, the CCP does not need you to play devil's advocate; they advocate plenty well for themselves.