i_have_no_enemiesBiden says he’ll sign bill that could ban TikTok if Congress passes it
I would remind people:
Tiktok is the only major social media platform that doesn’t demand a phone number to register or verify identity.
It is also the only social media platform that isn’t controlled by Meta or Google (reddit is now effectively in bed with Google).
Establishing and enforcing industry wide data security is a good thing, killing the only somewhat independent social media platform is a dictatorship style move.
remoteloveIf you were trying to make an argument to support TikTok, it’s a bad one.
While it may not be directly controlled by the CCP, the Chinese government still has the power to coerce ByteDance’s executives to cooperate on a whim. Tech moguls have already been disappeared, so it’s fairly obvious money can’t buy anyone complete protection.
Depending on what your news sources are, ByteDance has likely been sharing US data with China. This is magnitudes worse than a company selling data for profit to advertisers. Because of the prevalence of the app, it absolutely has the potential to be weaponized. It doesn’t take much to understand how a shitty little app could be leveraged to cause chaos. It’s about who really holds control over the company.
In my own personal opinion, short form videos are fucking cancer. All media companies that promote them need to fuck off.
While it may not be directly controlled by the CCP
It basically is. The concept of a “company” in China is different than in democratic countries. They’re effectively CCP corporate offices.
The smaller “independent” banks are the same way. The only people that have the influence to start large companies are people that are deeply rooted in the CCP or have close ties to their central bank, which is CCP controlled.