Qasim Rashid, Esq.The outrage over security from TikTok might be taken a bit more seriously if we didn't just watch Facebook admit to enabling Rohingya genocide, help to manipulate the 2016 election, cause massive PTSD to its own employees, and face zero meaningful accountability whatsoever.
Steve Torrente@QasimRashid And also they're clearly going to let the other companies keep doing whatever.
the10thwiz@theLastTheorist @QasimRashid except TikTok. My understanding is that FB was the main force in lobbying Congress to go after TikTok in the first place...
Amadi Lovelace@the10thwiz @theLastTheorist @QasimRashid they have poured hundreds of thousands into not only lobbying Congress about this alleged TikTok threat but also seeding bad PR about it talk to the media. That came out last week. I imagine that they were probably also behind the hard rebuff given to lobbyists for a real data privacy law.
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@amiserabilist @the10thwiz @QasimRashid this needs a third panel where "Legislators celebrate having fixed the problem."
@theLastTheorist @the10thwiz @QasimRashid
Hey banning Tik Tok is more important than assault rifles….
The RESTRICT Act is essentially PATRIOT 2.0. All transparency into the committee which would oversee the banning of this app is outside of any FOIA request, and the people doing the banning on TikTok and any app in the future are entirely appointed, not elected. It also gives power to monitor and block the MEANS of accessing apps.
as usual a steady march to fascism.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text?s=1&r=15
@theLastTheorist @the10thwiz @QasimRashid
You cannot sell a VPN to a U.S. consumer. If you need your computer to be repaired, the person repairing your computer must report you to the government if you are using a VPN. Otherwise, they are "abetting" your ability to circumvent the law. Also, thanks to the PATRIOT Act, the RESTRICT Act bypasses your right to not be subjected to warrantless search and seizure.
if you live in the United States. You should be terrified about it.
You cannot sell a VPN to a U.S. consumer. If you need your computer to be repaired, the person repairing your computer must report you to the government if you are using a VPN. Otherwise, they are "abetting" your ability to circumvent the law. Also, thanks to the PATRIOT Act, the RESTRICT Act bypasses your right to not be subjected to warrantless search and seizure.
if you live in the United States. You should be terrified about it.
jonathanpeterson@the10thwiz @theLastTheorist @QasimRashid So not surprising. I worked at BellSouth back in the 90s. We did an presentation as part of a business plan breaking down our market position advantages in innovation, customer service and price. A VERY Sr. Exec told us in no uncertain terms that our lobbying power over state and federal telecom regulation was all that mattered.
@jonathanpeterson @the10thwiz @QasimRashid Fortunately we broke up the big phone company in 1984 so that no one would have that kind of power. Oh wait . . .
@theLastTheorist @the10thwiz @QasimRashid It was fun watching the republican who did a batch of work to kill off community broadband in Louisiana become a well-paid lobbyist for the company when he left office during the deregulation period. smh. The scale of consumer rip-off in tax incentives given to RBOCs to build out fiber to the curb and the amount burned on frame relay to lock in phone customers instead of adopting ip is just shocking. But it was a slow bleed, not collapse.
AngolaThree@QasimRashid Watching hearings about TikTok being Chinese spyware in your Google Chrome browser.
Mark Saltveit@QasimRashid
How about cracking down on both? "Other guys are bad too" doesn't make TikTok good.
How about cracking down on both? "Other guys are bad too" doesn't make TikTok good.
Mad Dog Ace Run@QasimRashid
Fakebook is a joke. Yesterday I cleared the cookies in my browser before I logged back into Fakebook. A few minutes later they locked my account because they said it might have been hacked (it was not). So I had to verify my info to get back in. They could have just asked me if I was hacked but they did not. This is my second account because they locked my last one and never did unlock it. A total joke. And they have been implicated in genocide to boot.
Fakebook is a joke. Yesterday I cleared the cookies in my browser before I logged back into Fakebook. A few minutes later they locked my account because they said it might have been hacked (it was not). So I had to verify my info to get back in. They could have just asked me if I was hacked but they did not. This is my second account because they locked my last one and never did unlock it. A total joke. And they have been implicated in genocide to boot.
@QasimRashid
Also funny because I just read an article about a Fakebook leak where an employee had hinted to the media that Fakebook was developing a new phone. That was false but prompted Zuckerturd to send out an internal email asking for that person's resignation. The funny part was when Zuckerturd said that Fakebook was "dedicated to openness and transparency". LOL. They don't even have a customer service department. There is no openness and no transparency or accountability.
Also funny because I just read an article about a Fakebook leak where an employee had hinted to the media that Fakebook was developing a new phone. That was false but prompted Zuckerturd to send out an internal email asking for that person's resignation. The funny part was when Zuckerturd said that Fakebook was "dedicated to openness and transparency". LOL. They don't even have a customer service department. There is no openness and no transparency or accountability.
Cat West@QasimRashid @paprikapink They ALL need to be looked into for their back door damaging of society/nations.
Lingua Franca@QasimRashid ….and no way to find out if Elon is selling personal information.
obscurestar@QasimRashid And you're not even mentioning the whole Cambridge Analytica thing.
John Colagioia@QasimRashid There's a point where they'll HAVE to admit that they just want the FBI to be able to monitor Black Lives Matter or whoever, right? They can't possibly keep at the idea that they're protecting Americans with a straight face.
Kevin Leecaster@QasimRashid
The outrage towards TikTok started because Trump tweeted that “Almost One Million people requested tickets for the Saturday Night Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma!” and one local official said they expected 100,000 to show up near the arena.
A coordinated effort on TikTok in the days leading up to Trump’s Saturday rally, encouraging people to register online for the free event and not show up embarrassed Republicans so now they hate it.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/21/politics/tiktok-trump-tulsa-rally/index.html