House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok | CNN Business

The measure that sailed unanimously through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is quickly spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance.

US officials have cited the widespread commercial availability of US citizens’ data as another source of national security risk. The US government and other domestic law enforcement agencies are also known to have purchased US citizens’ data from commercial data brokers.

RvTV95XBeo,

Why not just pass some privacy protection laws with some actual teeth? Why single out a single company? They think TikTok is the only one making US citizens’ data commercially available?

rickyrigatoni,

because then the US companies won’t be able to legally spy on us and send all that info to the government

irreticent,
@irreticent@lemmy.world avatar

Because it was never about data protection or privacy. The issue is that the US government wants a monopoly on US users’ data.

Viking_Hippie,

You mean app stores such as the one run by a US defense contractor, advertising platform, and spy agency poorly masquerading as a consumer-facing company?

Or the one run by the company infamous for subjecting their overseas workforce to such atrocious working conditions for so little pay that their method of keeping employee turnover to a minimum is suicide prevention nets?

slurpeesoforion,

I may be in the minority here. I think silencing CNN Business might be a good thing.

Viking_Hippie,

Or at least ending any pretense of it being a reliable source for anything involving US corporations and their competitors.

gAlienLifeform,
@gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world avatar

I’m with Jamaal Bowman on this one, this is just about silencing and deplatforming pesky young people that ask lawmakers to protect the environment and stop genocides

AquaTofana,

Right? That was my IMMEDIATE gut reaction.

“We can’t silence the media but we can silence the masses.”

Corkyskog,

I think this is the right take. There is so much political activism on there, it gets almost annoying at times. 9 times out of 10 if there was some corruption, suspicious trade, or other nefarious thing done by a congress critter I seen it on Tiktok first.

skuzz,

The Federal trollops find hot button issues that hit each generation to keep us all confused and pissed off, and bring up “bills” whenever they want to mess with, and distract us.

  • Healthcare
  • Women’s rights
  • The rights of people of color
  • Immigration and "the border"
  • The rights of little metal objects that go pew pew
  • …and now TikTok to go after the Zoomers

It’s so pathetically transparent. They’ll make sure these issues are never truly resolved to keep everyone too busy worrying about basic things so we forget how much they continue to fuck up the entire country for their rich betters.

Wooster,
@Wooster@startrek.website avatar

Cool.

Do Facebook next.

They are doing Facebook next, right?

Right?

academician,

I don’t love Facebook, but I’m not sure I understand the comparison. The objection here is that TikTok is operated by a Chinese company. Meta is a domestic company.

gAlienLifeform,
@gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world avatar

What difference does that make?

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