Bill that could ban TikTok has been attached to the House foreign aid package. What next?

https://lemmy.world/post/14502485

Bill that could ban TikTok has been attached to the House foreign aid package. What next? - Lemmy.World

We should ban all apps that harvest personal data.

Yeah, I’d be okay with that but this bill doesn’t even ban TikTok. It forces ByteDance to sell TikTok or face being banned. Our leadership is fine with out data being endlessly harvested by megacorps, but they don’t want China to run one of the megacorps doing it.

It’s kind of funny really, because even if China/ByteDance sells TikTok they could just switch from harvesting personal data directly with TikTok to buying all the data harvested from TikTok and other platforms just like the USA already does.

They want to force a sell it to a group of republicans. Possibly for the profit, possibly to control the media.