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Chainleft
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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
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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
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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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Jack Dishman
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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.
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Chainleft
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Why are you isolating censorship from "national security"? Security has been used as the excuse for censorship since the societies exist. It's literally authoritarianism 101. And yes, algos are black box as is the case with Insta/Meta but already subject to regulation in US. But data farming = physically impossible.
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