Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned?
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Appealing to an out of touch, jingoistic voting base and cracking down on a social media platform where “the youths” are exposed to “woke commie socialist propaganda”. Also, yes it is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Your link provided me with more proper information than your biased quick take, so thanks for that, I guess.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 days ago
By the way, there's also a Wikipedia article about TikTok with a whole paragraph about privacy and security concerns. Along with references. None of it is refuted. TikTok / ByteDance themselves tell who owns the platform. And they seem to be very clear themselves and that they log your interactions, location, mobile carrier, information about your phone, your biometric face features and so on and so on.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thanks. I’m getting the sense that, while ByteDance doesn’t collect any more information than Meta or Instagram, it’s info is suspected to be accessible by the CCP, which may be used for anti-US programs/policies, etc.
neatchee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is the most accurate conclusion so far. The US government considers it a national security threat. There are lots of things it’s “okay” for your own government to do but not a foreign government :)