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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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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Saw another post that had many great points. What if TikTok leaned into propaganda, topics like reunification with Taiwan? I promise that will effect us, big time.

[-] retrieval4558@mander.xyz -3 points 7 months ago

I agree that would be problematic.

However I'm not willing to allow the government to ban a social media platform that a lot of people enjoy and rely on for community building (or even their livelihoods, in a lot of creators' cases) on a "what if".

Think about the precedent this sets. What could it be used on next?

[-] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Can it be used on conservatives and fascists? Can we use it to destroy right wing media outlets and overthrow the 1996 Telecommunications Act? Can we use it to band together and hunt down evangelicals who commit child abuse through radical indoctrination? Can we use it to hunt down corporate lobbyists and the Congressmen who take their bribes?

[-] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Not unless those things are owned by foreign companies, which I doubt those are

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