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Chainleft
@chainleft
US Senate has approved bill banning TikTok if owner ByteDance refuses to sell it https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/4/24/us-senate-passes-bill-to-force-sale-of-tiktok-sending-it-to-biden
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Jack Dishman
@dish
Biden said he'd sign the bill. I see both sides to this: pro: gives China a door into american citizens lives and data harvesting cons: censorship and will hurt small businesses / content creators There's no clear cut winner out of this aside from Meta (which is practically a monopoly at this point)
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Chainleft
@chainleft
There is no door for China into AMER citizens data. It's physically impossible. The data is stored & end-to-end encrypted in the data centers within US with firewalls for a 3rd party to access. The only reason for this bill is the US government wanting the power to control the content on TikTok, as is today on others.
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The only way China has influence is via the algorithm which suggests a better bill would have been to force all social networking apps to open-source their algorithms for review. In doing so, Meta’s products would also be exposed as highly manipulative. It’s clearly a play to increase narrative control by US
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tekashi69$maximoto
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Exactly https://youtu.be/xEDGZlG_41k?si=Y4UNquq2LSK6Z86Y
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Jack Dishman
@dish
It's stretch to say it's physically impossible. The feed algorithms are a total black box and a potential change to this could sway US voters. It's no secret that China has a long history of gathering data on foreign citizens I can see why it's a national security issue, censorship resistant tech is a different topic.
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