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I find it funny that if TikTok was sold to an American it wouldn't be a security risk anymore.
Is it me or is everyone ELSE a moron except somehow for specifically ME
I don't know about the devil, but some doomsday prepper edgelord keeps popping up.
You remember blocking me? 😍
I don't think about you at all. Just happened upon a living stereotype and felt compelled to point it out.
Good luck with those neurosis and narcissism. So weird those traits only ever seem to affect the self proclaimed "best" IT stooges.
Reddit must be banning lots of people
They are, it's all bots now
Eh? You do realize most people on Lemmy are not on TikTok.
We're laughing at it all and enjoying the popcorn.
Yeah, they're on .ml and hexbear and lemmygrad.
The point of forcing ownership to be American was to force TikTok to be sold to Musk or one of the other massive data harvesting jack offs.
Which is a ridiculous premise.
Exactly. I find it hilarious how some of these people conclude that China ONLY gets our data because of TikTok, when our own government and on soil companies sell and shares our data as long as the other (China even lmao) buy it from them. No issues as long as they get money, but if they don’t get the money, it’s “national security” risk.
It's not the data they care about.
I know.. it’s the things I’ve been trying to drum on about every time someone’s says it’s a “security” risk. No one cares though, because “TikTok” bad. :/
They would then be under US jurisdiction, that's the issue with TikTok, the US can't for them to comply with any laws, current or future.
Bullshit. Any country has jurisdiction over companies operating inside it's borders. If what you say is true then we couldn't even ban TikTok.
Who exactly do you expect them to sue if a website has no physical presence inside the US borders and it disobeys US laws? 🤔
The only thing they can truly do against TikTok is prevent people from downloading the app through official means and having ISPs blocking the website. Outside of that it could 100% continue operating and scraping user data to send it to China.
TikTok does have US offices and employees though.
And yeah if they're blocked in the app stores, and by ISPs you'd have to side load it onto your phone and tunnel out with a VPN. 170 million Americans aren't doing that. You'd be lucky to find 100,000 willing to do it.
And since even SCOTUS laughed at the espionage argument, we again need to bring up that China just buys the exact same data from Meta, Alphabet, and X. We aren't securing anything.
Three companies that could easily be regulated to prevent them from selling that data to China, but wasn't there political interference as well?
Anyway, they can just close their US office and then the US is shit out of luck unless they ban them (since that would be their only recourse at that point).
Sure. But they haven't closed their US Offices. They haven't done what X and Musk did with Brazil where they tried to just ignore the local government. TikTok clearly engaged with the system and has gotten a ban for purely political reasons.
No, the issue with Tik Tok is that the government can’t control it like it does Facebook, Twitter, etc.
There is nothing in China that can harm you as much as the American Government. No intention, no action, no belief will ever hurt you as much as America has.
They can't control it because... It's not located in the USA! Good job, you understood what I said!
because then they'd be subject to all the bullshit the feds do and required to comply.
Like what? What are American companies required to do to protect your privacy that TikTok doesn’t do because they are a Chinese company?
TikTok is not being banned to protect anyone's privacy.
Fine, what national security obligations are US-based social media companies meeting that TikTok/ByteDance is not?
TikTok/bytedance are controlled by a rival country. US based companies can, of course, help our rivals too but there's some degree of separation that makes it a bit harder to address/discover.
The PATRIOT act.
It's not about what they aren't doing. It's something they are doing.
They aren't required to protect our privacy, they are required to give data to the government and lie about doing it. Tiktok can't be brought into that unless they are an american owned company.
As in implementing back doors and reporting to the NSA/CIA/FBI/CBP/BATF/ETC?
The Patriot Act would like a word.