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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by chimeracoder on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:48AM (#35368123)
> There is no such thing as a bill comprehensive and deep enough to ensure that a tool like tiktok not be abused by the Chinese government.

Sure there is. An comprehensive data privacy bill would render it impossible to legally collect the data that is necessary for the abuse in the first place.

But that won't happen, because that would kneecap the US companies that these senators have stock in.

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by bioemerl on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:55AM (#35368179)
No there isn't, unless you want to regulate down to the specific details of what it's promoted or suppressed in their algorithm, who gets banned, who gets compensated for their videos, and so on

You'd have to regulate so harshly that you may as well just nationalize the company

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