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A weird thing about the takes on the TikTok divestiture bill is how often say it doesn’t protect privacy. Duh, it’s a NATIONAL SECURITY issue.
Similarly the reason Grindr’s Chinese owners were forced to sell was national security not privacy.
https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/
@carnage4life I have no idea who the locally based home-grown data scrapers sell their goods to, which is just as much a matter of national security. Who even checks?
@carnage4life Right, but we allow US companies to sell the exact same data to foreign data brokers, do we not?
So the lack of privacy legislation is also a national security issue, but one that's being ignored.
@carnage4life maybe proponents could do a better job explaining the national security threat
@tafadzwa @carnage4life
Hint...it's not.
Smokescreen of anti Asian bigotry to limit political narratives.
The CEO is from Singapore...not China
Hypotheticall...let's assume TikTok IS selling everyone's info to China....Russia...wherever
The kind of info they actually have...compared to the what Facebook has....is NOTHING