Comment on House likely to pass a bill that could ban TikTok, sending it to the Senate
emptyfish@beehaw.org 6 months ago
I don’t use the platform so I’m not as familiar to if this is general nationalist issue or about specific practices in TikTok. I do think this is a slippery slope, though. Unfortunately our elected officials are just too far behind on Technology to look at the broader issue. This might pass simply because they can slap “not US = bad” on their campaign bus. It will boost VPN usage and/or drive people to less mature and likely even less privacy concerned services.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 months ago
As a conservative I generally hate the idea of Chinese software collecting all our national selfie secrets, but I hate the idea of banning companies even more.
If there’s a problem about national security as it relates to Chinese social media, we need to address that with education not banning apps.