Good. Now do all the other social media companies that are also spying on people and also pushing propaganda.
Oh wait, I forgot that the rest of them are Western companies.
If the Dems weren’t the Bottom of the couple, they’d go on the offensive and use this ruling to get privacy and data mining sanity installed. Since tech are some of their biggest donors in the last 20 years, that won’t happen.
The perks of having all political power purchasable.
Lmao the dem justices voted to ban too, your delusional they don’t give a fuck that’s why zuck pays them
This man is no brainier, China clearly acts as an adversary in almost any other category. It regularly hacks our infrastructure, helps Russia with Ukrainian invasion, it wants to invade Taiwan, or ally.
OP was saying that Democrats should go with this ruling to go after Twitter and Meta. I agree, but no way in hell any legislature would happen in those 3 days, especially when House and Senate have majority of Republicans and Twitter and Meta right now appears to be on Republican side.
Good idea or not is debatable.
But at the SCOTUS level it’s just about weather or not the government has the power to decide if and how a Corp can operate in the US. Which it obviously does, since Corporations aren’t people and have no rights.Given the pro Corp majority on the court, this decision is a little surprising to me. I’d be shocked if they made the same call for a domestically owned Corp.
I would like to see that happen. That said, my understanding is that TikTok’s data collection is enough to make other social media platforms blush (at least, it was once upon a time. They probably made it worse since then). That, coupled with China not exactly being the US’s bestie, makes me feel this is at least a start.
You can’t even create TikTok account without installing their app on your phone first. I initially tried and purposefully did not want to have me phone mined, and was unable to register.
But actually the data mining is not the biggest issue even. The biggest issue is that a foreign government (especially since China doesn’t work like other Western countries and directly controls what their companies are doing) has influence over 17 million Americans.
I don’t why people are acting so surprised that a government might be okay with “friendly”, so to speak, companies collecting citizens’ data and not comfortable with a company that is cozy with a foreign, historically antagonistic country.
Like, this isn’t the hypocrisy gotcha that you think it is.
I’m not why you think it’s meant to be a gotcha.
Your comment seemed to be pretty pointedly trying to make a case for the hypocrisy of the government.
I’m pretty sure pointing out that the U.S. government is being hypocritical isn’t a gotcha.
And China being a foreign country doesn’t make their stated reasons for doing it less hypocritical.
Okay I’m not going to argue with you about what is or isn’t a gotcha, you seem to be really hung up on that. I’m saying they’re not being hypocrites and just pointing out that they aren’t banning western companies from collecting data is missing a whole lot of nuance. It’s not as simple as “if you ban one you gotta ban them all, otherwise you’re a hypocrite”.
Yeah, I’m weirdly hung up on people saying things about me that aren’t true. I’m just an odd duck that way. I’m sure you’re a completely different, but what with you having your PhD in psychology rescinded by Harvard after you faked all that data in those papers, I don’t think we can trust you on it.
… What? My guy you might want to go get some fresh air, I’m concerned you just had a micro stroke.
Unanimously??? We are absolutely cooked.
It’s amazing how well and efficiently the government works to uphold the interest of their owners. True bipartisanship.
Thumbnail looks like the black lodge. Hail David Lynch, I can’t believe we now exist in a world without him
Ban it. Ban red book. We’ll go to Vietnam next.
GovCo can suck my dick.
I can’t wait for the government to learn the futility of trying to block teenagers from something they like.
It’s like when Napster got destroyed and suddenly there were dozens of file sharing programs.
