• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, I’d be okay with that but this bill doesn’t even ban TikTok. It forces ByteDance to sell TikTok or face being banned. Our leadership is fine with out data being endlessly harvested by megacorps, but they don’t want China to run one of the megacorps doing it.

    It’s kind of funny really, because even if China/ByteDance sells TikTok they could just switch from harvesting personal data directly with TikTok to buying all the data harvested from TikTok and other platforms just like the USA already does.

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      7 months ago

      I think it is a lot simpler in the mind of politicians: “Tiktok is popular in America but not American. How can we make it ours?”

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      7 months ago

      They want to force a sell it to a group of republicans. Possibly for the profit, possibly to control the media.