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Is there any hard evidence that TikTok is an active tool of a foreign government (beyond whatever Facebook, Google, YouTube is already ). Curious if there is any true evidence of impact or harm? Also, why all bark and no bite? Wouldn't it be easier to just do an old fashioned police "knock and shock", where they suddenly arrive at the office, break the doors down, take everything, book everyone and let the courts sort the mess out.
No. I don’t think the ban needs any evidence at all.
OK. So you are guilty until maybe proven innocent?
No harm, but definitely a lot of pressure to share us consumer data from the Chinese parent company outside of the agreement they made with the US govt for firewalling off the data.
TikTok algo is unironically too good. I spent hours every weekend doomscrolling. Deleted the app, sometimes still pop on the browser version. Not necessarily foreign government tool, but nonetheless pretty bad for society imo (perhaps unintentionally)
In politics, it doesn't matter what the truth is.
Nah. It's purely geopolitics, it's just rooted in the fear of the potential that China uses it for anything funny. There's nothing about tiktok that other social media megacorps don't do.
You mean except the part where they are owned by a company that is beholden to the CCP?
No, if anything they’re more likely to behave better than their tech peers due to the scrutiny. Getting any data even within the company is painfully difficult
For any employees in the US, risks outweighs the rewards for a crime like treason. Nobody in the right mind is going to commit treason just for annual salary.
probably not any different than the other companies. Media creates boogymen so that politicians can use it as talking points.
My guess for why the US House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced the bill is the U.S. can’t get TikTok to secretly provide backdoors to user data without exposing they have backdoors already with the other U.S. social media companies.
lol no