Kevin CollierFor the people who have advocated fruitlessly for years for the US to have any substantial data privacy law, it has to feel like gaslighting to see the country's national security apparatus finally focus on what TikTok collects and then conclude the answer is to ban that one app.
Zack Whittaker@kevincollier it continues to baffle and bewilder me that, as someone not from here, why the U.S. is the only (ostensibly) functional democracy that doesn't have a data protection or privacy law, where everyone else has one? if America is best at one thing, it's creating a permissive environment that allows corporations to sell and share our data at the expense of our privacy and security and face no repercussions when it inevitably goes to shit. case in point, the past ten years.
Bynkii@zackwhittaker @kevincollier @briankrebs welcome to the land of prosperity gospel, founded on the idea that the rich are blessed by the Lord himself, so the rich are a benighted class, therefore their endeavors are innately pure and good.
After all, the only ones harmed are the poor, who are only poor because they are hated by god. Otherwise they would be rich.
Once you understand how foundational that is to the US, literally everything about this country makes terrible sense.