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We should ban all apps that harvest personal data.
Yeah, I'd be okay with that but this bill doesn't even ban TikTok. It forces ByteDance to sell TikTok or face being banned. Our leadership is fine with out data being endlessly harvested by megacorps, but they don't want China to run one of the megacorps doing it.
It's kind of funny really, because even if China/ByteDance sells TikTok they could just switch from harvesting personal data directly with TikTok to buying all the data harvested from TikTok and other platforms just like the USA already does.
I think it is a lot simpler in the mind of politicians: "Tiktok is popular in America but not American. How can we make it ours?"
The American government, unlike China, does not own American companies.
In fact, aren’t most big tech profits accrued in Ireland?
China already buys everything Meta and friends are selling.
All Meta sells are ad placements. They do not sell user data.
Lmao.
They want to force a sell it to a group of republicans. Possibly for the profit, possibly to control the media.
Instead of banning specific apps, ban the harvest and sale of personal data itself. Then the apps people want to use are still given a chance to exist if they stop mining data.
You basically just rephrased what I said.
No, you said we should ban apps, I said we should have better privacy laws. Two totally different things.
Yes but it's splitting hairs... If you ban alcoholic drinks it's basically the same as banning putting alcohol in drinks. Especially for a conversation between laymen on Lemmy
It's more like we should ban the addition of unsafe additives to alcohol vs banning a specific brand of alcohol, even though most brands add it.
That's not why it was banned though. That part is ok lol