As someone in the US who has had their private data leaked multiple times (ive lost count) and is extremely careful when browsing you tube as to not be drawn into a conspiracy ridden rabbit hole, I’m not sure what the point of this tik tok ban is. To me tik tok is social media business as usual. If congress is going to go this hard on a social media company and privacy concerns they should be doing this with all the other companies that pry into our private lives and try their best to manipulate us as well (car makers, appliance manufactures, phone makers, wearbales, ect…) otherwise to me this comes across as the US congress extorting a single company to make billionaires richer. It has been shown time and time again that even US based social media companies are vulnerable to influencing conspiracy theorists and swaying the votes of thousands of people.I feel like we are at the pinnacle of technological ignorance here. Thoughts?
The reason the vote was 50-0 is because regular people used it to talk to each other instead of either Dem.or republican friendly billion dollar media conglomerates.
There are valid concerns about China trying to accumulate data and what they use it for, but if that was why TikTok got so much attention, it would have been spread out between pretty much all of social media, even reddit.
If Democrats and Republicans suddenly all agree on one thing…
It’s time to ask why. Because unless something shady is happening, it’s not going to happen.
If Dems proposed a bill saying Trump is president for life, the majority of Republicans would oppose it out of principle because a Dem put it up for vote.