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House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok (edition.cnn.com)
submitted 1 year ago by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12876226

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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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Saw another post that had many great points. What if TikTok leaned into propaganda, topics like reunification with Taiwan? I promise that will effect us, big time.

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz -3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I agree that would be problematic.

However I'm not willing to allow the government to ban a social media platform that a lot of people enjoy and rely on for community building (or even their livelihoods, in a lot of creators' cases) on a "what if".

Think about the precedent this sets. What could it be used on next?

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