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Cheering on censorship and protectionism, the American chauvinist way
It's not "censorship" to ban a product like TikTok any more than it's censorship to ban any other product. TikTok had the opportunity to sell to an American company (the same way all products on the Chinese market are forced to go through Chinese companies) and, for reasons that only they can explain, they chose not to do that. They would have made billions of dollars selling, but perhaps money isn't their primary concern...
At any rate, we absolutely need to have a separate conversation about all social media in terms of privacy and data rights (though it'll never happen under Republicans), but that doesn't mean TikTok is free to continue being a completely opaque and unaccountable backdoor to the Chinese government.
Obviously being on Lemmy you get people who support open access. But seeing the state of the average American, and the results of their latest election, maybe it's time for big brother to step in a little bit...
Yeah, full support for the Trump administration to have the power to say which social media is acceptable, that'll fix everything! /s
If that's the logic, explain why meta and google still exist.
... They said the populous of Lemmy was more scrutinizing of privacy than other platforms. He never said anything about the people using meta or Google. I'm not sure people here are even reading what others are saying.
To me it comes like this. If China won't allow a Chinese owned app to be used in China, it gives other countries reason to worry about it. Meta and Google can be controlled by the U.S. government and are allowed within the nation they are owned in.
Is it a good thing they collect so much data, no. But this law has nothing to do with privacy, and everything to do with the flow of usable data and who controls that.