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A comment on Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns.

Re:Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns by ineedasername on Sunday September 20, 2020 @06:28PM (#24537975)
This is why it needs to be dealt with via data privacy laws, not a one-off shoot-from-the-hip bit of executive action.

Privacy laws with escalating penalties up to a ban would accomplish the same thing, not just for for the high-profile panic examples of the moment, but for problems of this sort in general.

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Re:Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns by chug on Sunday September 20, 2020 @07:43PM (#24538388)
If it truly is a national security concern and not politics, this should be the obvious conclusion. How do we know some Facebook employee isn't siphoning data to the CCP right now? How do we know the US won't someday abuse the data Facebook/Google/whoever are collecting? The data is either weaponizable or it's not, and if it is weaponizable (and I believe it is), this needs to be a much larger discussion than TikTok and WeChat.
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