@rbreich What they’re basically saying is you can steal and manipulate data from US citizens if the company is US owned.
This bill doesn’t even remotely get to the root of the mega-social-media problem. #regulation#tictocban#x#meta#bluesky
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Anybody remember the Kasperzy malware protection software? Obama made everybody in the Executive Department, including the DoD, take it off their machines because it was sending dumps to the KGB. One of the first things Trump did was tell everybody to put the Kasperzy spyware back on their machines. Hopefully Biden has ordered it removed again.
When Mark Zuckerberg puts his goal to remove the USA from the world in writing, because it is in his way, then I'll worry about him as much as the Chinese Communist Party!
Read more before putting takes like this out into the world.
@tcely@rbreich wait! China says that or TikTok? Why hasn’t this been more publicized? Who wants to remove the USA from the world ? Iran does now Putin too … but China ?
> Because of the fact that the US is the main international competitor, the PRC leadership considers all US security alliances and partnerships, especially those in the Indo-Pacific region, as destabilising and irreconcilable with their sovereignty, security, and developmental interests.
@tcely@rbreich you should take your own advice. TikTok itself is based in the US, their CEO is Singaporean, and they’ve offered to host all US data in Texas under Oracle. Additionally the minority leader on the House Intelligence Committee, Jim Hines, who sees the classified info that the public can’t, called it a ‘potential threat’ and voted against banning. He believed that First Amendment right preceded the potential threat of influence of the CCP.
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