• mlg@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Actually the Senate passed this in July. It took until now for Congress to pass literally the easiest partisan bill probably because they were waiting to use it as their next shitty rider platform, or because they were too busy wasting time creating a new committee to investigate TikTok.

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      2 days ago

      Bet there gong to spend millions to brag about a partisan feel good bill that will distract us from tasty CEO blood.

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        3 days ago

        TikTok is shady in how much info it collects and how tailored the feeds it shows people get.

        It is not unique about either of those.

        Facebook/Google/et. al. being on this coast instead of that coast doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have exactly the same scrutiny. Literally the only evidence offered that TikTok was in any way special was “we can’t tell you but there’s classified info that means we should ban it.” Which is less than encouraging that the ban is for anything other than because of ‘those dang kids’ being annoying.

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          2 days ago

          TikTok

          Is Run

          By Dictatorship Military

          It’s a weapon that wants to cause permanent irreversible harm to hundreds of millions of people, by design.

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            2 days ago

            Agreed.

            They’re also not materially different from Instagram or Youtube. Singling them out as “the problem” is short-sighted at best.