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> The question is: which regulators do the social media companies answer to? That's not the question I posed, kube-system. I asked, "How would Americans be be
by wombatmobile 6y ago
> The question is: which regulators do the social media companies answer to?
That's not the question I posed, kube-system. I asked, "How would Americans be better off with TikTok in Microsoft's hands?"
The issue you raise, about which regulators social media companies answer to, dismisses the conflict of interest that occurs when those regulators' align with the police departments that contract Microsoft to surveil citizens. When that happens, are American citizens better off? Clearly not, when they are being targeted by unconstitutional police actions, e.g. actions that violate the first amendment.
- kube-system 6y agoByteDance’s policy for responding to law enforcement requests is the same as Microsoft. Of all the domestic privacy issues you could have brought up, I don’t think local law enforcement is a differentiating concern.