US lawmakers want a TikTok sale or ban, but China’s ByteDance won’t give up without a fight
US lawmakers want a TikTok sale or ban, but China’s ByteDance won’t give up without a fight
Caught between demands from Washington and Beijing, ByteDance has chosen the route of resistance in the US.
They are just jealous that someone else is getting all the tasty data, and they think it should be going to a US company instead.
Except US TikTok data is hosted by Oracle in the US...?
Doesn’t matter who hosts it. Oracle has no access to the user data. Just because some website is hosted there does not mean that they can see the data.
Yeah, it's not about 'data.'
It's about money. Lol. American rulers want a piece of that pie, and they have plenty of useful idiots spreading FUD to help them.
More than that, US companies have maintained monopolies for decades in the tech sector, and feel entitled to them even as markets shift away.
I'm a bit worried about the amount of people I see making this argument whenever I see posts about a TikTok ban/acquisition.
I'm getting the impression that, either:
- People don't believe there's (significant) Chinese propaganda on TikTok.
- People believe there would be (significant) US propaganda on TikTok following an acquisition.
- Given the choice, people would rather see Chinese propaganda than US propaganda.
Am I correct? Is there a nuance I'm missing?
I can understand concerns over point #2 here, but #1 and #3 seem wild to me.
Given the choice, people would rather see Chinese propaganda than US propaganda.
Well since I see US propaganda literally everywhere else it's nice to get some counter-programming.
I can understand concerns over point #2 here, but #1 and #3 seem wild to me.
Seems fairly arrogant for you to declare that these positions are 'wild' and then expect other people to explain why they're not. Seems like you should be able to justify why those positions are "wild", because they seem perfectly reasonable to me.
ADL says they're losing the opinion war to TikTok and suddenly the US wants to ban it, but everyone is talking about data privacy (Oracle is controlling that). LOL
Wish we could just implement some form of federal standards that are aimed towards protecting US citizens' data instead of just banning a service like tiktok because "China bad".
Good. I don't use TikTok and never will, but the government shouldn't be able to tell you what kind of speech you listen to, what speech you make, or what platforms you use to communicate it. This is some 1984 shit. Looking forward to Trump banning every app except Truth social because we opened the door to this nonsense and all the other apps are spreading "anti-christian hate speech" or "anti-american-first propaganda". Fuck the CCP. But also fuck the government trying to restrict speech.
This is some 1984 shit.
So embarrassing.
Fuck the CCP.
*CPC, maybe you should learn the name of something before hating it, much less any other information
Just like to take this opportunity to say fuck the name "ByteDance"
It's a stupid, corporate, "hip" name that needs to fade into obscurity asap. Not crazy about the company either, but the name in particular is just so fucking cringe
Seems to be the hip thing for social media companies. Meta, X, anyone else want to chip in absolutely stupid names to the list?
All names are arguably ridiculous
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Global Earth Federation should just ban all spying software