Erik MoellerJan 17

"If we don’t like China’s practices on surveillance and censorship we should stop adopting them back home."

https://freedom.press/issues/tiktok-ban-weakens-first-amendment/

The TikTok ban does not protect personal information: a strong privacy law would do that.

It does not weaken the civilizational stranglehold of corporate attention fiefdoms: investing in open protocols & nonprofit platforms would do that.

It creates the precedent that speech is only protected if it is mediated by US-based entities (typically US corporations).

Banning TikTok enables online censorship

If the U.S. doesn't like China's surveillance and censorship practices it should stop copying them

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Show threadKevin Karhan 

@eloquence precisely that is my problem with bs like the #TikTokBan...

  • It's merely signalling that everything is fine unless it touches #NOBUS Doctrine and threatens the "#GlobalReach" of #NSAbook and it's access via #PRISM-Collaborators.

The fact that #DataBrokers basically act as privatized #intelligence agencies IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!

I'd not be surprised if #Trump were to basically create a "DATA-#FATCA" and demand #hosters and #providers outside the #USA to #backdoor their systems and provide #BulkAccess to #US citizens' data to US intelligence unless they want to face sanctions which would basically force them off the Internet due to it's US-centric nature!

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