this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2024
610 points (98.7% liked)
Technology
60074 readers
3557 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's not "censorship" to ban a product like TikTok any more than it's censorship to ban any other product. TikTok had the opportunity to sell to an American company (the same way all products on the Chinese market are forced to go through Chinese companies) and, for reasons that only they can explain, they chose not to do that. They would have made billions of dollars selling, but perhaps money isn't their primary concern...
At any rate, we absolutely need to have a separate conversation about all social media in terms of privacy and data rights (though it'll never happen under Republicans), but that doesn't mean TikTok is free to continue being a completely opaque and unaccountable backdoor to the Chinese government.