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Shit I forgot the us government owns 50% of Facebook
Access to the data it's what matters, ownership is just one method of access.
If this were true, it wouldn't matter that the US set up the social security number system, because Experian leaked millions of Americans' SSNs.
It obviously matters who owns a service that millions of citizens use from a country that is a political rival. You're just hoping to shut down any conversation against TikTok with a whataboutism
We're talking about individuals' personal data stored by social media companies being accessible to others (governments, in this case). This has nothing to do with social security.
The problem is that the data is accessable, but that's not being addressed. This is an improper fix to an actual problem, just facts.
When signing up for a tik-tok account, I put in a birth date, a username, an email address for verifcation and that was it. I didn't need to provide a drivers license, verify that the name I put in was my actual name, that the birth date was my actual birth date. Location isn't allowed nor was it requested and neither was Nearby devices. It's actually been a much better behaved application than any American social media app.
It's a bad analogy. Mass surveillance (continuous collection of everyone's data) has very little to do with the number we use to track social security payments.
The ownership part was how it was analogous. That was pretty obvious. Any time a massive system is set up for millions of people to use, it quite obviously matters who set it up and why.
I just love when Internet randos pretend not to get analogies because I'm, gasp, comparing things which aren't identical.
In any case, sorry to interrupt your stream of 15 second video clips.
Lol
That's your great analogy. This is a social media company. Gtfoh
So Americans having access to American's Data is bad but you think China having access to American's Data is good?
No, they're both bad.
Alright, thank you for clarifying that you want more restrictions and laws against these companies, it just seemed odd for you to bring up those other businesses in a post talking about the TikTok forced sale and resulting lawsuit.
I'm just happy about them restricting US Citizen data being brokered to adversarial nations including Iran, Russia, China, and others.
I want the issue of mass surveillance / data collection to be addressed, instead of this bs which is basically working around the edges the problem. Tick-tock shouldn't be allowed to sell (/provide) user data to anyone but neither should Meta, X, reddit, etc.
So you're simultaneously against the TikTok ban but also worried about the lack of privacy for American Citizens?
I can't tell which of the two of us you are referring to.
They don't need to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
Requires a warrant or subpoena. That is the difference.
Also requires the company to be US-based, so doesn't apply here. Well, not yet, that's the whole point of forcing them to sell or be banned.
They don't need to. Facebook plays ball.
"if one authoritarian government does surveillance even across borders, why can't all? Anything less than 'i agree' here is hypocrisy!"
Noone is saying that. The argument is pretty much that people want more scrutiny applied to other companies beyond tiktok, and ideally not be under constant surveillance by any of them, not that people want to be monitored by all police states equally.
It's a whataboutist cop out. People who like tiktok just wanna point out how supposedly since tiktok was targeted, then it's all in bad faith and therefore there could never possibly be a legit concern with tiktok in particular. Any argument to be addressed with "ChInA bAd"
It doesn’t matter who owns it. It’s the data that the US government is accessing.
I couldn’t give a shit about TikTok, I’ve never used it in my life. I just think the US should be open and say we are banning this as we don’t have control over it. Sure China is only doing what we are doing but fuck em. I’d respect that.
Also, it’s got to be about silencing pro-Palestinian rhetoric too.
If they ban TikTok they should ban FaceBook and Instagram too.
Yeah trump was talking about banning it in 2020 because he used his time machine to find out what it would be used for in the future. After his harrowing story from the future, I agreed with the effort to ban it because I lOvE gEnOcIdE
...of fucking course it matters who owns it
I refuse to converse with someone who conveys themselves in this manner.
Be better dude. Manners cost nothing.
Have a wonderful day!
Whataboutism isn't the elevated level of discourse you're pretending it to be
You're actually just mad you don't have an actual response to the fact that you making the about Israel/Palestine makes zero sense