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This article from 2024 gives a pretty good rundown as to why using this reasoning to ban Tiktok will set a very bad precedent:

npr.org/…/tiktok-ban-first-amendment-lawsuit-free…

If the govt cared about your data privacy, they would create data collection regulations that they could then use to ban tiktok if/when they violate them.

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finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They did. They banned sending US Citizen data to adversarial nations including China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and/or Venezuela. It was all packaged into one vote and now that’s the law.

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- SoupBrick@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  Lawmakers and the White House have justified the crackdown on TikTok by claiming the app’s link to Beijing makes it a national security threat. But supporters of a ban have not offered direct evidence of the Chinese government ever attempting to obtain data from the company, nor any proof that authorities there have ever influenced content on the platform used by 170 million Americans.
  
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  - finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Lmao
    
    ByteDance publicly admitted they stored the user data in Beijing in 2023.
    
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    SoupBrick@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Please read the article.
    
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  - Rinox@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’m pretty sure that the Chinese government has direct unfiltered access to byte dance Chinese servers, there’s no need to “attempt” to obtain data, they don’t need a judge or an injunction, they can just do it. It’s a different system from the American or European ones.
    
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    SoupBrick@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The big issue is the US trying to ban Tiktok explicity for “national security” without showing the public a shred of evidence. What do you call it when China blocks access to an American app because of “national security”?
    
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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  They banned sending US Citizen data to adversarial nations
  
  create data collection regulations
  
  Americans simply cannot grasp the difference between Not Collecting Data To Begin With and China Bad
  
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  - finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You say that as if China doesn’t use it’s own citizens data extensively for nefarious purposes.
    
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