Seems like the most honest answer so far. The U.S. doesn’t trust the CCP with its citizens’ data. No surprise there.
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november@lemmy.vg 2 months ago
Tiktok is owned by a Chinese company, so all of the data harvesting that’s perfectly fine for Facebook and Twitter to do suddenly became a problem for the US government.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Please read my reply to the comment, it’s not about data ownership, it’s about weaponizing algorithms.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just like meta and shitter are doing.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Companies weaponizing algorithms for profit is different than governments weaponizing algorithms for all sorts of far worse reasons.
If you can’t see that, you’re a bloody idiot.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Except FB and Twitter sell their data to the highest bidder. If China wanted American’s data, they can just buy it.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good point. Seems like another issue of concern. As usual, the issue seems to be data privacy laws overall.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It is, but the relevance to the discussion is that China getting american’s data isn’t the reason for the ban. Nor is China influencing Americans because they tend to derank politically spicy videos. If China was controlling the algo to make the US look bad, videos tagged BLM wouldn’t have been deranked.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hard to believe this post is in good faith. This ban has been discussed at least for like 4 years now
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s not about the data harvesting, please stop repeating this falsehood.
It’s about how China is controlling the algorithm for polical goals. From pushing its claim over Taiwan to interfering with global elections by showing(or hiding) speicifc content to sway peoples choices.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So what is considered perfectly fine for Facebook and Twitter to do, got it
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
What if I think Facebook and Twitter should be shit canned too?
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They all suck, yeah. I think banning individual social media services is not the solution. The solution is to create meaningful laws that hold any company, Chinese or American, accountable for data privacy and misinformation/influence violations.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
Are you the US government cherry picking privacy concerns to eliminate competitors?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
It’s like having siblings. It’s okay if I call them buttheads, but you’re not allowed to because you’re not family.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I mean, that’s exactly what Facebook and YouTube and Twitter do as well just over different things like radicalizing people towards Maga and whatnot.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Facebook and You tube haven’t been pushing Maga content, they’re just allowing it to exist. The feed itself isn’t set to give it to everyone or hide left-wing content for a default user.
Twitter is a different story, and should probably also get banned at this point. Elon is absolutely using it to push his own rhetoric.
Grunt4019@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Really because I’ve had right wing content recommended all the time on YouTube even though I don’t watch it. I don’t see left wing content recommended outside of what I’m already subscribed to.