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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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[–] slumlordthanatos 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

TikTok isn't doing anything that any other major social media company isn't also doing. The only difference being that TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, and not a US one.

Just banning one app does little to resolve the overall privacy and information nightmare that social media is.

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

The US government has always cared more about national security than the privacy of its citizens.

[–] Hildegarde -2 points 7 months ago

This is nothing to do with national security.

[–] jeffw 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh? You have a source that other social media websites suppress certain stories?

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

lol seriously? They found 1000 posts that got deleted? That’s a rounding error on the number of posts they delete every second. That’s like comparing an ant to a gorilla. The data is nowhere close to the TikTok stuff