"TikTok is stealing your data."

[email protected]

Top part opinion the rest is the wording of the law you quoted. Want to point out if it has fangs or any actual good legislation or just say they did a thing?

[email protected]

According to this statista article at least 80% of their population has mobile phones with internet access as of 2023. So I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about here.

deaf_fish

I think Trump is going to try to work out a deal where TickTok gets to stay the way it is if the company publicly blames Democrats for all the noise.

archomrade [he/him]

A massive, comprehensive data privacy law would've covered the TikTok base and any software by any other threat

That's assuming the ban is motivated by privacy reasons, but i don't think it is. It's far more likely that it's because the US has no control over the platform's algorithm, which they fear is feeding Americans media and perspectives that are antithetical to their foreign policy objectives (Blinken and Romney have both stated as much).

A US buyer would be more friendly/responsive to US regulatory influence. That's the only reason this isn't a privacy bill instead of a ban or forced sale.

[email protected]

Facebook too.
Don't forget Cambridge Analytica

Anas

I don’t think I see pro-TikTok memes, but rather “why stop at TikTok” memes

JackbyDev

The hive is (or at least was) a bit split. Many users seem to hate TikTok because they just dislike it for whatever reason (e.g., addictive short form videos), but others view this as a fascist move by the US or anti-China.

JackbyDev

Data privacy is so much more than "selling data to China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea." What a weak rebuttal.

[email protected]

So nothing short of a complete ban of all social media and advertising is Data Privacy to you, then?

JackbyDev

just look at the number of pro TikTok memes being shared right now, there's something fishy happening.

If by "fishy" you mean "the ban is going into effect so people are expressing frustration", sure.

[email protected]

YOUR data doesn't matter. Information gained from mass analysis of data that is tied to govt workers and military personnel is a security concern and it is treated as such. Nobody cares about your particular data, on either side (well, maybe ad companies, but if you are a tiktoker, you are already fully compromised there).

On the up side for tiktok kids. The CCP will likely order trump to unblock it.

[email protected]

In other words, they (the US government) can't influence who does or doesn't see certain content, so they need it to sell to an "american" owner so that they can make sure they only see pro us propaganda.

JackbyDev

Something like GDPR would be the sane, non-strawman take.

JackbyDev

It's not even a "loophole" it's literally irrelevant to what people generally think of as "data privacy." Something like GDPR is an example of data privacy.

[email protected]

As far as I understand TikTok is used as the main example but it will apply to all similar Chinese platforms.

[email protected]

Right so the arbitrary line of not data privacy and is data privacy lay just before GDPR.

[email protected]

Meanwhile there's https://loops.video/ and you should share that like I'm doing with your friends that are hooked on tiktok.

Cuz, fuck, this banning our voice thing is getting old.

FartsWithAnAccent

If our data didn't matter, they wouldn't be harvesting it, never mind making obscene amounts of money with it.

[email protected]

It will certainly take a while to gather all evidence and verify it

So … if the evidence hasn’t been gathered yet what makes you think it’s happening?

[email protected]

When you said “pushing the … propaganda” I assumed you meant using algorithms to artificially amplify these messages.

But the whole article is just about Musk posting his opinions on X.