Yoo shut yer mouf, ya hear!
Jokes aside. Yeah, I've got no answer.
Edit: I do love the middle finger people are giving by hopping off TikTok (basically being shut down for being a Chinese company) and running to redd (a Chinese company) hahahahahha
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That South African oligarch is a US citizen though and it hasn't been shown that he works in the interest of South Africa and South Africa isn't on the list of enemy countries.
Would you also want to prevent all naturalized citizens from owning a business?
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Banning the one mentioned is partisan
It's true that both are security risks, and that Tiktok is even worse in general, however other proprietary social networks are also BAD and the proprietary algorithms behind them can all be used for massive user manipulation (control what they see, when they see it, and what they don't see, combined with tons of personal and psychological data about each user). That said, another factor that might be overlooked is that it also depends on how easy a target something is. An app by a foreign government that could be used to manipulate citizens is a much easier target for "banning". There's probably much less legal obstacles in the way in this case, and less resistance against it.
I'm really curious what you thought this added to the conversation.
They're banning it because ChInA sCaRy
Interesting to see "technofeudal" entering liberal discourse
It has nothing to do with security. It has everything to do with controlling speech and maintaining management of public narratives. This became an urgent issue for the oligarchy when they lost control of Israel genocide discourse. This is what fascist states do. They are just getting started.
Bc CHYNA
The govt isn't getting money from it?
They are, tho. TikTok still has to pay taxes.
But not on the data they harvest. Other platforms pay tax by selling the data rather than just harvesting it.
Google uses it to run ads. Facebook sold it to one of the listed countries back in 2016-ish and as a result in 2019 recieved the largest FTC in history at $5Bn and also faced similar cases in other countries, meaning they lost more money than they made doing that specific sale by far.
The US Government doesnt buy data, but they do sometimes request it via court orders and warrants.
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The security at risk is that of the white tech monopoly my friend