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TikTok Rule (fedia.io)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Isn't Zoom supposed to be basically Chinese spyware too? Why are they trying to ban TikTok and not Zoom?

Rhetoical question. I know why. Zoom helps funnel more money to shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Because the bill lets them ban anything that they want, not just TikTok. All the have to do is assert “foreign influence” and they can block, censor, or force sale to “American interests”.

Basically these motherfuckers are doing their best to make it so you only see, hear, and read what they want. And if that’s not actually their intent, they’re leaving the door wide open for the next guy to do it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

And if the current guy doesn't get his shit together, that next guy is going to be the former guy and then the entire world's fucked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Not true. They have to show that the company is headquartered in or owned by the "sensitive country".

Giant loophole for American Data vendors and marketers to sell data and targeted advertising to China. (Which is just an algorithm by a different name.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Because the bill lets them ban anything that they want, not just TikTok. All the have to do is assert “foreign influence” and they can block, censor, or force sale to “American interests”.

How long until this is used against a Fediverse instance?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

There's also this.