Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by rusty_venture on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @10:57AM
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Good. Domestic spyware masquerading as social media is bad, but foreign spyware and propaganda masquerading as social media is unquestionably worse. It has the potential to undermine not just personal privacy but national security (e.g. the TikTok trend encouraging US soldiers to post footage from inside their barracks, revealing the locations and identities of US forces to Chinese intelligence agencies). I applaud this bill and the efforts of US lawmakers to push back on foreign espionage and influence operations in the US.
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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by dauertewigkeit on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:06AM
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Should the Iranians and the Chinese think in the same manner? Isn't this largely a question of how much you trust the official narrative of the local elites?
Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:09AM
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> Should the Iranians and the Chinese think in the same manner?
Yes, and they do.
Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by LordKeren on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:23AM
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China has banned YouTube, twitch, wordpress, medium, etc.
Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:37AM
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> China has banned YouTube, twitch, wordpress, medium, etc.
Also TikTok! ByteDance operates a separate app in China [1].
Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by xeromal on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @12:53PM
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Isn't it an education app in China?
Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by bugglebeetle on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:05AM
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> Domestic spyware masquerading as social media is bad, but foreign spyware and propaganda masquerading as social media is unquestionably worse.
The former is unquestionably worse and a far greater threat to citizens of this country than anything TikTok does.