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Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo... by wumeow on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @02:43PM (#40148036)
> The difference is that when the servers are in China the US government can't get that kind of access/cooperation.

Except that TikTok’s data, or the main copy of it at least, resides in the US, so the evil US govt theoretically already has access to it. That’s not the motivation for this bill.

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Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo... by autoexec on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @03:30PM (#40148533)
I know they've said they would plan to store American's data on US-based servers, but wouldn't promise to stop sending data back to China or keep ByteDance from accessing it. I'm not sure that the US government having exclusive access to this data enough to make them go this far.
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Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo... by packetlost on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @04:35PM (#40149261)
It's not about access to the data, it's about access to controlling or influencing the content that users see.
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