The House offensive materialized abruptly, after years of efforts to force TikTok to split from its China-based parent, ByteDance, or face a national ban.

The swift rebuke shifts attention to the Senate, where the bill faces significant political barriers and constitutional concerns

  • big_slap@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    But, the bill doesn’t really solve the real problem which is data protection and privacy - Facebook, Google, etc are still collecting data at an alarming rate, even if they aren’t as efficient at it as TikTok.

    this is why I believe the ban is ridiculous. another country has caught up on how to mine data from users at a highly efficient rate, and now the US wants to clamp down on it in the name of “national security.” this is extremely hypocritical and should be vetoed unless the ban applies to other popular apps.

    • CoffeeAddict@kbin.socialOP
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      8 months ago

      I think I agree.

      TikTok is just the best at the data-mining game, and the real reason it’s being banned is it’s connection to the CCP.

      Facebook, Google, and all the rest have spent billions lobbying congress and also spent billions trying to replicate TikTok’s algorithm because they want to do the same thing… the real problem is data privacy, and that is the problem congress is not addressing.