TikTok hysteria notwithstanding, the heads of the CIA, FBI and Intel community are careful to note that any threat to national security is purely hypothetical.
@taylorlorenz Real and present threats to everyone's privacy by true-blue all-American corporations, however, are all too real. And ignored by politicians.
@taylorlorenz twitter provided a firehouse of data to usgovt which was used as a data source for a “total information awareness” like intel program. Perhaps with twitters melt down, US intel is looking for new firehouses and ByteDance is uncooperative. The legislation then becomes a way to pressure them to comply. Spitballing but this is a logical hypothesis given the info gathering capabilities the govt has pursued in the past. E.g. John Poindexter, IBM Tealeaf and the “shuttered” TIA program.
@taylorlorenz Meta is a far greater danger than ByteDance ever could be, and Meta has already willingly given data to the Chinese government, doing the exact thing ByteDance has been accused of.
Of course…they don’t like that people organize against fascism and such on TikTok, nor do scumbags like Mark Zuckerberg accept they’re simply better at what they do than they are, and covet those accounts and the increase in income associated with data brokering them for themselves. Despite being the same or even worse for collecting that data.
@taylorlorenz United States must respect human rights and freedom.If someone doesn't like TikTok,they can avoid using it.And anyone who wants to use it should be free to use it.It must be the people's choice.That is human freedom.
The government can impose any sanctions on ByteDance or any other company.But they can't ban tiktok in a way that people can't use it on their personal smart phones.If they do that America is the same as Russia, China and Iran.
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