FiniteBanjo
I tried Odysee out for a little while but TBH there are too many Crypto-bros and White Supremacist Insurrectionists for my tastes. You can't even stream or post large videos without investing in their crypto.
I hope we get something better than that, soon.
When Facebook was investigated following the 2016 election for selling Data that inevitably ended up in Russia, the DOJ reccomended their case to the FTC who in 2019 fined them 5 BILLION USD. This isn't even the only time they've been fined or investigated, either, they've got ongoing lawsuits from the states and federal governments.
And now, the FTC no longer has to wait for a DOJ investigation because H.R.815 also included Section I that enshrines their ability to fine the companies who sell data to adversarial countries including China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc.
But sure, "tHeY'RE NoT TaRGetTiNG faCeBOoK." I can't tell if you're supremely uninformed or a CCP shill, but to be very frank I don't have patience for you in either circumstance.
The company openly stores the data in China. Ex-employee Yintao “Roger” Yu, who was head of Engineering for all of ByteDance's US Operations in 2017-2018, claims that the CCP had full immediate access to all collected data.
IG is owned by FaceBook which actually has about double the userbase of TikTok if you don't count DouYin's 700 Million. I kind of hope that they also fuck up and trigger Section I if not full blown Section H of the bill.
H.R.815 Sections H and I have already passed, and there is no "sales agreement" because TikTok hasn't officially negotiated with any potential buyers. The US Government as a whole doesn't want or need TikTok, they just don't want China using it as a weapon.
This is part of Section H of H.R.815 that was signed into law:
(A) any of—
(i) ByteDance, Ltd.;
(ii) TikTok;
(iii) a subsidiary of or a successor to an entity identified in clause (i) or (ii) that is controlled by a foreign adversary; or
(iv) an entity owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by an entity identified in clause (i), (ii), or (iii); or
(B) a covered company that—
(i) is controlled by a foreign adversary; and
(ii) that is determined by the President to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States following the issuance of—
(I) a public notice proposing such determination; and
(II) a public report to Congress, submitted not less than 30 days before such determination, describing the specific national security concern involved and containing a classified annex and a description of what assets would need to be divested to execute a qualified divestiture.
(4) FOREIGN ADVERSARY COUNTRY.—The term “foreign adversary country” means a country specified in section 4872(d)(2) of title 10, United States Code.
So, no, they don't just get to change their name. They don't get to change everything and still send data overseas to China. They have to cut ties with the CCP or else they cannot escape this.
Yeah I agree, there really is no incentive for a for-profit company to choose shutting down over selling. Unless they never cared about profit and had ulterior motives from the very beginning.
I actually couldn't even get that to work for me, TBH. Also, all of the latest versions of GotR got flagged on the Nexus for some reason. Its still clean according to most up to date antivirus, though.
Me calling you numbnuts is the absolute height of my courtesy.
Well yeah, it's just one country, were you expecting an essay on the Global legality of Archives? You didn't ask for a specific country, numbnuts.
Your comment's score has convinced me that the above post is just paid shillery to promote helldivers.