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House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok (edition.cnn.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12876226

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I, for one, only want domestic adversaries abusing my personal information. Actual rocks and fence posts are smarter than this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Tiktok isn't about advertising. It's CCP propaganda. Studies have been done that demonstrate that the Chinese only version Douyin shows more positive content to its users and Tiktok shows far more negative content that has a measurable effect on the mental health of younger people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

To me that sounds an awful lot like TikTok being closer to good old American media than some Chinese psyop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's uh... The NYPost article you're flogging. Which is brave considering NYPost is a rag.