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House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok (edition.cnn.com)

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The measure that sailed unanimously through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is quickly spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance.

US officials have cited the widespread commercial availability of US citizens’ data as another source of national security risk. The US government and other domestic law enforcement agencies are also known to have purchased US citizens’ data from commercial data brokers.

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[-] dzaffaires@sh.itjust.works 130 points 8 months ago

Let's ban one app instead of making laws that govern personal data for everyone.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 54 points 8 months ago

Not to mention this does nothing. ByteDance could easily just stand up a shell company with a puppet in another country and have it become the owner. Our lawmakers and regulators are fucking morons.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

They aren't. They're just well paid. Meta and Alphabet don't want competition.

[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

North American politics don't work like that. We all know there are gigantics gaps in the reasoning behind everything. Domestic companies do the same damn thing, but a part of that money has already gone into someone's pocket, because lobbying is a huge part of the decision making process

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago

It's only bad if other countries are doing it.

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