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House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 9 months ago by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The measure that sailed unanimously through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is quickly spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance.

US officials have cited the widespread commercial availability of US citizens’ data as another source of national security risk. The US government and other domestic law enforcement agencies are also known to have purchased US citizens’ data from commercial data brokers.

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[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (61 children)

our minimum wage is $7.25, no universal health care, the cops are militarized and keeping citizens in their proper places, food/ housing costs are more than our pay, transportation costs have skyrocketed, the postal service needs attention, we have fifty states not working together

but we showed that China TikTok what for BY GOD! they ain't gonna spy on us

[–] soloner@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (54 children)

Fuck your whatsboutism. This is good news; tiktok is a propaganda machine.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (26 children)

The cyber security professional inside of me wants to agree with you. The Liberal in me doesn't want to give the government the authority to ban speech and what citizens are allowed to watch.

[–] los_chill@programming.dev -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Same. Just make it so Tiktok cannot advertise to American users or monetize American views. Start with that and wait for another non-ccp app to take that market.

Edit: Curious why every seems to disagree.

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