US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues

Oh no, now we have to ban them all?? What a shame!

/s

But you can't charge me with murder! That guy committed it too!

I'm surprised so many people think this is a good argument. TikTok is a social media platform. Temu is an online marketplace. The potential to cause disruption within US society is completely different.

"Good point, we'll ban all of them"

It's time to start taxing the acquisition, retention, and selling/trading of personal data.

Actually, that time was 40 years ago.

US tech companies too, you fucking cowards.

Facebook paid kids to install a VPN client on their smartphones so they could intercept AND DECRYPT traffic between competing services (like Snapchat, Amazon, Youtube)

facebook and any other company they acquire (or however they try to rebrand) are not only untrustworthy but active adversaries against common decency and basic privacy

America selectively caring about privacy.

The concern isn’t that these companies have microtargeting data. The concern is about what these companies could use that data for.

An off-brand t-shirt site would be a fairly ineffective vehicle for political propaganda. Tik Tok would be great at that.

TikTok is correct. Ban them all.

They're right, we should regulate or ban then too.

So ban them too

Is tiktok saying that all Chinese apps that steal our data are also stealing our data because they were designed to steal our data?!

I am SHOCKED.

This is a good point actually. That's almost like trying to ban Naruto because it's Japanese, but not banning Dragonball Z. We'l see where this goes. If they would enforce these law equally it wouldn't be as much of a concern. Overall, whether they ban TikTok or not, if as a user you don't like a said platform, just don't use it.

Like Temu?

You mean like facebook and twitter.

I generally think that TikTok sucks but do agree with this argument. It’s silly to say that domestic companies can be evil but foreign ones no.

TikTok literally got people to commit check fraud

Please ban them, I beg of you, please...

Temu isn't a social media network that has been known to boost specific narratives with their algorithm. The U.S. isn't saying that China can't sell and market to the American audience, just that they'll need a supervisor if they want to mess with media.

Yeah, better ban them all, don't see why not

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

I mean. Why not?

What’s temu?

Fisher said that Americans have a "fundamental interest" in working with the publisher or editor of their choice

Bruh. Did you really just throw away all of your Section 230 protections?

Game on, motherfucker.

What about Lenovo, Aliexpress, Xiaomi, Didi (It's famous in latam), BYD, NIO?

Fine then, ban all the Chinese spy apps

Now do Facebook and Amazon

I bet you they can actually

Good call. Let's ban them both.

You can't spy on our citizens, that's our (and our corporations') job!

Signed, the US Government

The part that actually describes how the ban would work is at least one hyperlink away from the article.

If ByteDance doesn't sell TikTok, app stores in the US would have to drop the app, and Internet hosting services would be prohibited from providing services that enable distribution of TikTok in the US. Companies that violate the prohibition would have to pay civil penalties.

(5) INTERNET HOSTING SERVICE.—The term “internet hosting service” means a service through which storage and computing resources are provided to an individual or organization for the accommodation and maintenance of 1 or more websites or online services, and which may include file hosting, domain name server hosting, cloud hosting, and virtual private server hosting.

Ban them too.

This thread has made me realize that while I was watching the hearings on it purely for comedy aspect, there were actually people out there being like, "Yeah that makes sense."

Love it when the government takes away our stuff. Please, take away more of our stuff. Love me that security theater.

If you don't like the app, just don't use it. Nationalism is a hell of a drug.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with data security and everything to do with other social media companies lobbying to eliminate a competitor, using anti-China sentiment and fear-mongering as a justification. It's all about the money.

Bet.

They're gonna ban anything that reveals the genocidal reality of zionism.

RT, AJ, TikTok, every honest/uncensorable app/news...