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What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.

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[–] carl_dungeon 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Open internet- right- even every website forces you to use the app otherwise it nags you to death or disables features, or just sucks and the app is a mass surveillance collection engine requesting access to every service and sensor on your phone or no-bueno. So open, #open.

I’m all for things being open, but what the major social apps force you to do to use them is basically criminal.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Internet ≠ Web and other stuff on the application layer. But I agree this stuff is important to fix.

[–] carl_dungeon 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah I get what you’re saying- I’m making the point that for an uncomfortably large portion of the world, including people in America, Facebook/instagram/tiktok IS the internet. We can ensure the pipes are clear all we want, but if the application layer is effectively the access portal and is in itself locked down with an iron fist, we’re ignoring the real and more immediate problem.

One of the great tragedies in tech is wikis/forums/message boards being replaced by discord, an unsearchable, ephemeral, corporately controlled platform. Have a discord/slack/whatever to chat sure, but put your docs out in the open!