Tik Tok is a national security threat

Re:Tik Tok is a national security threat by gopi on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:47PM (#32905208)

Exactly, Tiktok can algorithmically identify a few 100k persuadable voters in a few battleground states and feed them the political viewpoint they favor. Thus CCP can influence our elections. Its easy do this in stealth and there is no way to prove from outside that it happened!.

We already have laws that restrict majority foreign ownership of traditional media, why cant we extend it to new media?

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Re:Tik Tok is a national security threat by lapinot on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:51PM (#32905248)

> Thus CCP can influence our elections.

Would it make any difference if it was a US owner? The real problem here is more basic: 80B americans have 20% of their free time centrally controlled. This a health and social problem, whoever owns the corp.

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Re:Tik Tok is a national security threat by gopi on Monday September 19, 2022 @10:01PM (#32906750)

Yup, it makes a difference.

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Re:Tik Tok is a national security threat by MiguelX413 on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:51PM (#32905244)

I don't see why domestic private companies holding such a power is any better.

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