For 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.

@kevincollier Well if Tiktok would limit their practice of collecting data and giving it to a government to the US government, then nobody would complain.

Actually, considering that the US #TooBigToFail surveillance capitalists sell the data actually to any comer that pays, I'd be surprised if the Chinese Communist Party is not indirectly buying data collected by Google & Meta. 🤷

@yacc143 @kevincollier They do have other deals with Google, and that would not be a surprise, Mr. Gnu.
@yacc143 lol looks like the gnu for gnu linux, though you say yacc