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This is why the US is going after TikTok. It's social media that the US can't access and a foreign government can. The Europeans and the Indians who both have
by sien 6y ago
This is why the US is going after TikTok. It's social media that the US can't access and a foreign government can.
The Europeans and the Indians who both have social media markets big enough to support their own should play the same game that the Chinese and the Americans are. That is, if there is any indication that foreign governments can access the information and that your own government cannot they should ban the social media application, search applications and mail applications and build their own.
Right now there are effectively two countries in the world that have big internet companies. The US and China.
It appears that China's protectionism in the internet has worked. It also appears that the US is practising similar protectionism in regard to TikTok. It's not completely unreasonable from either party.
The next step is that the other potential majors, the Europeans and the Indians do the same.
It might even make a more interesting world. European and Indian TikToks, Googles, Facebooks, AliBabas and so on.
- DevKoala 6y agoThe EU has already started protecting their citizens with GDPR.
- sien 6y agoThat's a very good point. It would be interesting to see if the NSA care about it.
- DevKoala 6y agoWhether the NSA cares about it or not doesn’t matter because the data controller can still be sued for collecting the users data if the users opt out. The controller has the motivation in this sense to comply. My point is that if the USA is monitoring citizens from EU, it isn’t through American businesses that intend to comply with GDPR.
- basch 6y agoI'm a broken record, but this is a great time to modularize "social media" and break it apart into a sub/pub protocol, an interoperability protocol, a client, a data store, standard data sets, data portability, and a sorting algorithm (including anti-evil, spam etc.) Splitting whatsapp or instagram from facebook is a fools errand. A client should be something much more agnostic, that anybody can use on any platform. The platforms would need to agree to an smtp/http like protocol allowing a person to upload and download data. Nations seeking sovereignty can be more protective of data stores and ranking algorithms, BUT as end users, WE would benefit from being able to plop different ranking algorithms between the data set we are connected to, and client we use to view. If I dont like my client, ranker, data provider etc, I can swap out the component, WITHOUT losing my friends or access to my own graph. Innovation can happen independently at the client and ranking levels, new winners can rise and fall more naturally, where everybody isnt "stuck" with the lowest common denominator default. In my view, anything else will continually lead to a few titans owning the whole network stack and graph, and governments can peruse antitrust and security angles all they want, but the same problem will just keep happening as long as they incentivize isolated proprietary silos over choice.