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US Senate has approved bill banning TikTok if owner ByteDance refuses to sell it

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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Power consolidation=evil.

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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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.

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.