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TikTok Keeps Removing Abortion Pill Content
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Given TikTok's precarious situation, it's no surprise they're going out of their way to bend to the whims of US politics. Face it, there are a lot of Republicans ready to justify banning TikTok by pointing to teenagers getting abortion advice from the platform.
There are plenty of other reasons to ban TikTok, namely the massive and unchecked data collection by the Chinese government.
I'd prefer not to install Chinese spyware, thankyouverymuch.
Maybe ban targeted advertizing, or that degree of spyware, for all companies, instead of opening that pandora's box of giving the power to ban social media apps altogether to the government.
Especially since the anti-tiktok bills actually include a lot of other stuff, up to and including making VPN's illegal.
Targeted advertising isn't even on the same playing field of sketchyness as "massive and unchecked data collection by the Chinese government". Even mentioning it in the same sentence seems like an attempt at forum sliding.
And while I agree that the bill is an overreach and absolutely shouldn't go through in it's current form, it's exactly what would be required to achieve your authoritarian stance of banning all social media.
Really? Because you could argue that targeted advertising lead to the January 6th riots.
The chinese government doesn't really benefit from data collection on western citizens. At least not if they don't work for intelligence agencies or want to proclaim that Taiwan is a country while being on mainland China.
If you think they're not capable of if not already engaged in PSYOPS, I'd suggest you look deeper into targeted advertising and who is paying for it.
What is your point? Tell me, what the chinese government is supposedly doing with non-chinese user-data that is not worse than what the US surveillance capitalism is currently doing?
Do you seriously think that China spread misinformation about "stolen elections"?
Every US bill includes a lot of other stuff. That's Congress's gig.
The US needs a tighter set of restrictions like what the EU has been passing out lately. But, that doesn't change the fact that ByteDance is a Chinese corporation, under the control of the Chinese government, and has no pretenses of data regulations.
ByteDance is corporated in the Cayman Islands, buddy.
They are about as cooperative with the CCP as Apple and Facebook are.