• AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    Nice, so congress can tell any company to get fucked and sell to the highest bidder? So much for free market republicans.

    China will just find another company to buy our data from, because as it turns out, the problem isn’t just TikTok, it’s the fact the it’s legal for companies (foreign and domestic) to sell and exchange our data in the first place. TikTok will still collect the same data, and instead of it going straight to China, it’ll go to a rich white fuck first and they’ll be the ones to sell it to China instead.

    And if the problem is the fact that it’s addictive, well, we have plenty of our own home grown addictions for people to sink their time into. You don’t see congress telling those companies to get sold to a new owner.

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      6 months ago

      It’s not just data collection that TikTok grants its owners. It’s also a very affective social manipulation tool, as we’ve seen from every other social media company.