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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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[–] dzaffaires@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let's ban one app instead of making laws that govern personal data for everyone.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention this does nothing. ByteDance could easily just stand up a shell company with a puppet in another country and have it become the owner. Our lawmakers and regulators are fucking morons.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They aren't. They're just well paid. Meta and Alphabet don't want competition.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

It's only bad if other countries are doing it.