POV: It's January 19th

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nice try sweetcheeks but as predicted, a second came

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If they were legitimately only banned for “tracking the location in the US and gathering large amounts of data”, then just about every single social media service would be under investigation for the same reason.

We aren't talking about TikTok simply gathering the information though, are we?

But yes, absolutely. Let's do it. And we know that: just because the other companies aren't being investigated/regulated in the same way, does not mean that it shouldn't happen at all. That's not how it works.

Also, you are making a fallacious argument yourself... If we were talking about banning US social media sites in China, then the comparison holds (and even then, it's not 1:1 given the political structure of the CCP vs. that of the US). Otherwise, TikTok is clearly unique among them in that the Chinese Government ostensibly has access to any and all information that is being collected.

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It is obvious that they want the other (US-based) companies to be able to continue collecting that data so they can gain access to it if they want/need it. It's bullshit, but it's clearly what they want.

But that being bullshit does not mean that they are wrong in not wanting the one that is under the control of a foreign adversary having access to that data. Two separate things.

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Oh is that what you were doing? Predicting?

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Cambridge analytica you fuck

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It’s outright shadowbanned at best and straight up banned at the isp level at worst.

That’s why tik tok is getting banned, because US spooks can’t control it.

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Oh yeah, nothing like hallucinating that everyone you talk to is an enemy, and when they complain, well that just proves it.

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No, that’s neurodivergence.

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As does all the American owned networks. That’s not the reason. Not pushing American propaganda is the reason.

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And the US social media companies are filled with spooks.

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The ~~Chinese~~ _American _ government is a tyrannical undemocratic dictatorship and I'm OK with not tolerating them or their propaganda wing.

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I didn't say tiktok is the bastion of free speech. They only do this in the Palestinian case because it does not serve them anything to be against palestine. We can criticise one party without making the other one some kind of "moral hero" of a story.

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Cuz logical fallacy commie dibshits

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Bibi did. The guy who would be in prison for corruption charges without Hamas being retards. HURRDURR

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Factually untrue, the only person who has control of what the algorithm shows you on any social media is the end user. So say8ng that it is used to spread propaganda (which that's super vague), is blatantly false. Pretending otherwise is just being willingly ignorant to how the technology works. Hell, a 6 year old understands how the algorithm works and how to shape it. Plus, US based users have their data stored on US servers hosted by Oracle, China has no access to it. Do two seconds of research and you will see that I'm correct

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surveillance capitalism…

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I don't think that means what you think it means

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Here is a video going over the bill in detail https://youtu.be/tMe3ZdWUnU8?si=-TSKsL2RW2wfzMsq

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These are very loose terms. Pretty much every major website saves IP addresses when you create an account (to prevent abuse/spam detection). And you can get location info from the IP address. Hence the first condition would be true for all of those websites.

Next, any website/app that builds a recommendation system will save user interactions to build the "algorithm". So every social media with an algorithm will fall into this category.

With enough bending of terminology, we might be able to prove that the lemmy also collects user data (although it will be really hard cuz the algo here is based on upvotes and time posted iirc). And "large amount" part is just legal filler words.