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US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues
(arstechnica.com)
I bet you they can actually
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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The concern isn’t that these companies have microtargeting data. The concern is about what these companies could use that data for.
An off-brand t-shirt site would be a fairly ineffective vehicle for political propaganda. Tik Tok would be great at that.
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This thread has made me realize that while I was watching the hearings on it purely for comedy aspect, there were actually people out there being like, "Yeah that makes sense."
Love it when the government takes away our stuff. Please, take away more of our stuff. Love me that security theater.
If you don't like the app, just don't use it. Nationalism is a hell of a drug.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with data security and everything to do with other social media companies lobbying to eliminate a competitor, using anti-China sentiment and fear-mongering as a justification. It's all about the money.
Good call. Let's ban them both.
US tech companies too, you fucking cowards.
Facebook paid kids to install a VPN client on their smartphones so they could intercept AND DECRYPT traffic between competing services (like Snapchat, Amazon, Youtube)
facebook and any other company they acquire (or however they try to rebrand) are not only untrustworthy but active adversaries against common decency and basic privacy
What about Lenovo, Aliexpress, Xiaomi, Didi (It's famous in latam), BYD, NIO?
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit....
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You can't spy on our citizens, that's our (and our corporations') job!
Signed, the US Government
America selectively caring about privacy.
The concern isn’t the input, it’s the potential output. Temu doesn’t have the potential to be used for a large micro-targeted political messaging campaign.
This is arguably more akin to how the US handles TV and radio. There are national security restrictions on foreign ownership.
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They care about companies they have less control over and a foreign adversary has more control over invading privacy, for reasons unrelated to seeing privacy as a good in itself.
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Is tiktok saying that all Chinese apps that steal our data are also stealing our data because they were designed to steal our data?!
I am SHOCKED.
Simply reading the article would reveal how ludicrously incorrect your argument is.
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Fine then, ban all the Chinese spy apps
I'd rather they just ban spy apps in general...but that's a "dream a little dream, it's never gonna happen" type of thing.
And all the CIA ones.
And then block all cookies and tracking.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
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Bet.