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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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Chainleft
@chainleft
Exactly. FWIW, they have 4 Americans on their board and one Singaporean. CEO is Singaporean. Currently in the US, you can search for Tianenmen Square and you get hundreds of results, but you can't search "Bin Laden letter". It's already subject to US regulation, just not directly NSA-enforced like Meta/Google.
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Right. Currently a honeypot. Soon, a propaganda pollinator.
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