• @CaptainSpaceman
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    364 months ago

    When do we focus on Meta, Google, Twitter, Kick, etc as well?

    All these companies do the same exact data harvesting.

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      What about them?

      Google already got fined $170M for COPPA violations in 2019. Twitter was fined $150M in 2022 for disregard of privacy laws. Meta settled for $1.4B in a privacy suit just last week. TikTok isn’t being singled out here.

      • @CaptainSpaceman
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        214 months ago

        A fine like that is just “the cost of doing business”.

        Tiktok is facing a nationwide ban.

        Please dont tell me that was an earnest argument.

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          Tiktok is facing a nationwide ban.

          Nobody said anything about a ban. Just earlier you were implying that being fined for privacy violations constitutes discrimination against TikTok. You’re shifting the goalposts, evidently because you weren’t aware that other similar companies had already faced such fines as well.

            • Media SensationalismOP
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              I am, but again, what about it? Now that I’ve pointed out your original fallacy, your continued attempt to stick to TikTok’s impending ban as the focus of our conversation might just constitute a red herring. It was never pertinent to the point regarding TikTok being sued for privacy violations that you were originally trying to make, which is what I was addressing.

              • @CaptainSpaceman
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                54 months ago

                Tiktok is being targeted at a harsher clip than American companies and thats a fallacy somehow?

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                  A straw man won’t be of much use to you, either. I didn’t have ‘Bingo’ on the list of things I expected to do today.

                  Mockery aside, I hope you’ll come to reflect on my critique and improve your argument-waging skills. Given how it was handled up front, I don’t expect anything constructive to result from deeper engagement.

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        144 months ago

        So they paid the equivalent of a few day’s revenue. Ticktock is being singled out as sort of the new ‘red scare’, ‘how dare a non american company be this popular’

      • @CaptainSpaceman
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        144 months ago

        Easier to emphasize a boogeyman instead of solving an actual problem, I guess