• FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    It’s cute how you think that the only government that’s using our own data against us is china. Might want to step back and look at our own government, then apply your same line of thinking to all big tech companies in existence right now.

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      6 months ago

      Exactly: banning TikTok is nothing more than a good start. We need to destroy Facebook, Twitter and Reddit next.

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        6 months ago

        That will never happen, at least not in this way. Because it wasn’t anything to do with their data collection, or their company structure. Congress is happy to allow domestic data collection and want Americans addicted to American apps so that they get a cut.

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      6 months ago

      You’re extremely dull if youre suggesting I don’t know data is abused left and right all over the place. But if TikTok is so bad it’s can’t even fit within our abusive system, it deserves to transfer or exit.

      You’re missing the forest for the trees.

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        6 months ago

        And you aren’t even reading what I wrote. In no post did I defend tiktok… I merely stated that what it is doing is also being done by american based companies and they should be addressed as well.

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          No doubt, but accountability starts somewhere, so why have a problem with this? Why not celebrate and then demand equitable action domestically?

          “I’m not defending TikTok. I’m just bemoaning action being taken against them because bad things happen with other companies!” Not a great look.

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            Where did I say I had a problem with this? So much knee jerking in here. I am stating that lawmakers should apply these same laws to our own social media. The same lawmakers who will most likely profit off this decision.

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              Then you should write and call those lawmakers. You are a part of the body that elects them. Or run for office and fight the good fight yourself.

              I do hope we do get some domestic reform, but I’m able to separate this small foreign policy win from the huge need for comprehensive domestic policy.

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            Because this isn’t accountability? It won’t start any change with domestic companies, because it doesn’t apply to them. This isn’t the start of anything. If you think they’re going to use this as the starting point for actual privacy legislation, you’re very ignorant of how congress works.

            Data collection will still happen domestically, and another Cambridge Analytica will happen, so long as domestic data brokers are legal.

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            6 months ago

            How about we start with universal healthcare and then we worry about children learning dancing, right here in River City

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      6 months ago

      It’s cute how you think many of us haven’t applied that big thinking to all big tech. A Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter ban absolutely should happen.