• MimicJar@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    So technically you’re right, but the law they passed left a HUGE loophole. And by loophole I mean just don’t be based on those counties and you can gobble up whatever data you like.

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      1 day ago

      It’s not even a “loophole” it’s literally irrelevant to what people generally think of as “data privacy.” Something like GDPR is an example of data privacy.

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      2 days ago

      You also can’t send the data there or be more than 20% owned by non-US-citizen citizens of those countries.

      TikTok owners have stated repeatedly that they will shut down this Sunday rather than sell.

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        Sure, but even if TikTok sold it wouldn’t solve the problem. Hell them not selling also doesn’t solve the problem.

        The problem is that data is gobbled up and sold. Data/privacy protection laws to stop that would be useful.

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          20 hours ago

          Those laws should cover every social media site though. Not just the foreign ones. If they’re going to ban tik-tok they should ban the rest too. I’m not in favor of this but the double standard is fucking stupid.

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          I choose to believe a hostile foreign dictatorship means more harm than a hostile domestic for profit business.

          Probably because that aligns with what each of them says they want, to say nothing of their actions.

          Bht hey, if at least one of them gets banned thats a win.

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            20 hours ago

            I choose to believe a hostile foreign dictatorship means more harm than a hostile domestic for profit business.

            WTF is the foreign dictatorship going to do to the average citizen?

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              19 hours ago

              “Pig Butchering” and political radicalization towards violence, as well as the largest YoY increase in hacks, specifically from china, which have had large measurable impacts on US Industry.

              And thats just ongoing problems, they’ve probably gotten enough peoples social security, bank acc no., fingerprint, facial ID, etc to do so much more if they decide to cash in on their schemes early.

              Also, if they suddenly decide the USA is weak enough, such as after losing a third of annual defence spending capability via withdrawal from NATO, the Chinese now have intimate knowledge of our defences.

              You are already paying the price and it could only get worse.

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                  Facilitated by, maybe. Contributed to, sure. The primary end goal of, no.

                  ByteDance wasn’t operated for profit like the others, it was operated to do harm. The fact that they would rather shut down than sell 80% of ownership for a hefty profit is proof of that.