TikTok is taking the US government to court.

  • mlg@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    If tiktok were a serious threat, the executive branch would have already banned it by now via an executive order.

    That’s not what happend, instead a whole bill went through congress and got passed with the explanation being “foreign influence” as if American social media platforms don’t already do the same thing

    This is more about removing foreign competition and not about saving democracy or ensuring security.

    DoD already banned it 4 years ago for military because of the actual security threat of data collection.

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      6 months ago

      TikTok pushed a notifications to all US users with the phone numbers of their local congressmen to oppose the bill. So many calls came in that the phone lines were jammed.

      Let me distill that for you: China attempted to directly influence legislation with a mass propaganda campaign targeted at its US user base.

      Please explain to me why that isn’t a threat and why the US should allow hostile foreign powers to directly influence internal politics?

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        We’ve already established that Tiktok Tok is not the CCP. That’s what the whole first “gonna ban TikTok” fiasco was over. It’s why they don’t store US data in China but continue to do business in the US.

        That would be a business using the 1st amendment right (which everyone gets, not just citizens) to free speech to use it’s platform to ask it’s users to do something directly beneficial to them. Nothing illegal about it unless you want to reevaluate that “TikTok is the CCP” claim again.