• lurch (he/him)
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    11 month ago

    that platform is being banned because there are very limited privacy laws and the platform doesn’t even comply with those. all theyhad to do is start a US front company with a data center, host all collected user data there and deny all data center access to the foreign parent company.

    • @Maggoty
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      31 month ago

      But… They did do that.

      • lurch (he/him)
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        -21 month ago

        no, they allowed the chinese part of the company full access to all US data and they were found out

        • @Maggoty
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          31 month ago

          The only articles I saw were for headcount data. Literally just confirming the number of users. They embarked on an entire project for it and then the goal posts were taken off the field.

          • lurch (he/him)
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            -11 month ago

            do you not have google or bing in china? just search for “tiktok ban reason” and you’ll find articles like this: https://www.nytimes.com/article/tiktok-ban.html

            Lawmakers and regulators in the West have increasingly expressed concern that TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, may put sensitive user data, like location information, into the hands of the Chinese government. They have pointed to laws that allow the Chinese government to secretly demand data from Chinese companies and citizens for intelligence-gathering operations.

            • @Maggoty
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              11 month ago

              Yeah and I remember when Bush expressed concern there would be mushroom cloud over New York city. Lawmakers saying vague shit isn’t evidence. Hell politicians saying specific shit isn’t evidence without the evidence. We just spent a year debunking half the shit Biden said about the Gaza war because he insisted on straight up repeating whatever lame excuse the war criminals thought up.

              • lurch (he/him)
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                -11 month ago

                dood. they were only vague in their speeches, then the US congess made a very detailed, specific law mid last year. then tiktok ignored some details of it and got a chance to correct it, but didn’t.

                • @Maggoty
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                  -11 month ago

                  That law forced a fire sale of TikTok by name. I wouldn’t follow it either, it’s blatantly unconstitutional. The Constitution very clearly, in plain English, bans the practice of punishing specific people and organizations via legislation instead of the justice system.

                  This is also like citing the laws against Marijuana when asked for evidence the laws against Marijuana are necessary. Entirely circular. There’s still no evidence there.

                  • lurch (he/him)
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                    -11 month ago

                    tiktok could have just started a US based company and sell US operations to them for $1. and of course they knew that.