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They did. Divisions H and I of HR 815 of the 118th Congress make it illegal to collect, broker, lease, trade, or sell US Citizen’s personally identifying data to an adversarial nation which is defined in Article 10 as China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea.
You’re complaining about the law and you literally have no idea what that law says?
ignorance is bliss
It would be easy and rational to attribute misinformation memes like this to ignorance, but to be honest I can’t help by imagine it is malice.
There’s definitely some malice in there i don’t doubt, which likely bleeds into the unwillingness to prove one’s biases wrong
The meme references the US violating privacy.
And what does the meme say?
Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
I don’t like or use TikTok, but when I see US politicians and TV “Security experts” spiting nonsense arguments to justify banning it shows to me that this is a frivolous case to benefit META and Alphabet rather than a genuine concern in data collection and privacy.
If the catered ads weren’t so obvious that pretty much most social platforms are stealing your data, not sure what is.
Nothing is free. Especially a ‘free’ account. You are the product at that point.
This is the most literate take on the issue that I’ve seen.
Actually, they clearly haven’t read anything about Divisions H and I of HR 815 or they would realize that WAS a broad privacy legislation to protect US Citizens.
I support blocking Facebook and X from the EU for the same reason.
They absolutely should. In fact I’d be surprised if they didn’t do something about it eventually.
Apparently, Meta has just taken part in a huge destabilizing propaganda campaign here in Brazil. The kind that criminal law has punishment for.
It will certainly take a while to gather all evidence and verify it, so I’m saving the popcorn for later. But I just ensured I have enough kernel for a US-sized portion…
Another one: Elon Musk is pushing the whole Grooming Gang propaganda on X to cause tensions in the UK. As if nobody cares about victims when the perpetrator happens to be brown. It’s absolute populist BS.
He is also saying that the parliament should be dissolved, and is throwing around more outrageous accusations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/01/04/elon-musk-pushes-for-britains-king-charles-to-dissolve-parliament-as-lawmakers-say-tesla-ceo-is-misinformed/
We have people with obvious political agendas controlling the world’s largest social media platforms, and it’s not just the CCP.
with obvious political agendas
On the case of Brazil, I think it has economical reasons. Meta sells stuff that compete with the social infrastructure it was trying to destabilize.
I would really like to see some laws against media concentration. It’s not even important who the media is. Instead, we have some laws that are the opposite of that, so if we solve the Meta problem, something else is due to break shortly after.
But hey, it’s entertaining anyway.
Honestly at this point I rather have China steal my data vs. The US government. I’d be more likely to see a negative impact from data collection from the US government rather than China. China can’t really influence my insurance rates. The US can.
Political interference, that’s what people need to fear from the platform. I’m sure if it was Russian I wouldn’t have to say it.
Hell, just look at the number of pro TikTok memes being shared right now, there’s something fishy happening.
Young people love the platform. Was it fishy when there were Luigi memes? Regardless of how much the state is involved with the app, it’s popular.
Oh look, I must be an agent for the CCP cause I’m suggesting there’s a legitimate reason for memes.
And their dickhead CEO is invited to the inauguration. Yeah, fishy.
Trump went from wanting it banned to not wanting it banned because it was working in his favor this time, which is… Political interference!
Crazy how hypocritical people are… X should be banned because Musk can interfere in politics with his algorithms, but TikTok doing the same thing on behalf of the Chinese government? No problem!
Musk’s X hurting America is just America hurting itself, deservedly. TikTok hurting America is the CCP hurting America, undeservedly.
You can see how an American Company operating rationally would want to limit negative socioeconomic outcomes, but a Chinese Dictatorship Military operation would want to maximize it?
His stacked ass SCOTUS all agreed on this. But let me get out my crystal ball… I predict they will change their minds too. Hmm
US government couldn’t give two shits if TikTok steals your data. They just don’t want a foreign adversary to.
Also, they don’t care about the data. They care about the influence.
Government: We don’t like competition.
There are laws, TikTok is almost certainly breaking them.
None that are comprehensive and strong like all the rest of the G7
Source?
There needs to be at least some evidence that the American subsidiary of tiktok broke data privacy laws
If they did, they’d be tried under those laws, not some new legislation that allows carte blanche banning without a trial. That should tell you everything you need to know about whether there’s any proof of them breaking data privacy laws.
“Actually, I want to own it”
Haha NO!? We’re gonna ban it, and whatever platforms you move to, in a game of whackamole until you pick the “right one”, like facebook!
Good luck everybodyyyyyy (starts swinging mallet) /S but also that seems to be their mindset
We can’t afford bread and they’re trying to ban the circus
This was the obvious progression
The real kick in the nuts is that we get to see that the average Chinese can afford groceries and has disposable income for entertainment, and just in general doesn’t have the insane monetary burdens we have here.
The average Chinese citizen doesn’t have much access to the internet.
Are you high or sth? The chinese are getting as much extorted as you do, the system of it just differs. Chona got a huge homelessness problem they try to hide from their own people (because officially homelessness was “eradicated” years ago according to propaganda). The worker extortion is brutal and child labour a big problem as well. However, you won’t see anything outspokenly crticial about those systemic problems im China on RedNote or sth., their deletion and suppression algorithms are extremely well tuned. Also they got stuff like neighborhood watch and other means of systemic social suppression who’ll be alerted of “problematic people” if you post (too much) criticism. Or of course police, in case you really annoy them or happen to be the wrong ethnicity.
Hey, child, we can prove you and your state dept propaganda wrong now.
You really should delete this obvious and easily disproven misinformation.
You can both be right. The parent post is about perception and propaganda.
