I hate tiktok. I am not from the US, but banning the app that is most popular among young people while raiding dozens of university campuses? Don't sound like a great way to get young people trust the system...
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They don't really aim for them either, it's not like most young people would go lobby them in their preferred way(money).
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Governments banning social media based on who can use it to spy on who, instead of creating privacy regulations and enforcing them to create and regulate markets, which is kinda what they should do, to make it so it doesn't matter who owns which app. Taking an opportunity and shitting all over it for some childish standoff should be beneath us.
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I think the tiktok fiasco is just another wrong solution to a problem. The problem is data collection and mismanagement of it; and no one is getting 'royalties' for their data being sold or used.
They aren't attempting to solve a problem. The political right wants to buy TikTok to control a space used by millions of young voters.
Facts. We need better data protection laws, especially now more than ever with the rise of AI