3 ms·

Most of these articles single out TikTok when they apply to all big tech companies. Clearly the call should be for better privacy protection laws that protect a

• jensensbutton 4y ago
  Name another big tech plugged directly into the Chinese Government.
  • tobylane 4y ago
    Huawei, but I think your question was about social media platform owners. Other platform owners are bad, I don’t need them to be equal to China before doing something about it.
    • MichaelCollins 4y ago
      > Other platform owners are bad, I don’t need them to be equal to China before doing something about it. I agree. But by the same token, we don't need to do something about the others before doing something about TikTok. Where would we be today if we accepted the argument that before addressing tobacco companies we must first address alcohol companies, and before addressing alcohol companies, we must first address tobacco companies? Arguing that X shouldn't be regulated because Y is not yet regulated is never a legitimate argument.
      • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y ago
        > ... before addressing tobacco companies we must first address alcohol companies > Arguing that X shouldn't be regulated because Y is not yet regulated is never a legitimate argument. Either you've got the question wrong, or your position is more disagreeable than you think. It seems to me that the question is whether Chinese X should be regulated when American X is not regulated. It is still technically X vs Y but the justification is far less obvious to me (when compared to justifying that we can regulate tobacco despite a lack of regulation of alcohol).
        • MichaelCollins 4y ago
          The problem with "not X until Y" arguments against regulation is you can swap the Y and X around depending on the context of the conversation and use this to disingenuously argue against all regulation while pretending you're only interested in fairness.
  • lovehashbrowns 4y ago
    Tencent?
  • williamscales 4y ago
    Baidu?
• crakhamster01 4y ago
  As engineers, it often feels like enforcing one policy regardless of the actor is the best solution, but I think it breaks down in practice. For example, imagine if your email password was given out to two individuals - one is your significant other, and the other is a random dude on the internet. In theory, good password hygiene should be maintained no matter who the individual is. In practice I would be (and should be) vastly more worried about this random dude than my partner. Trying to figure out a generalized solution for big tech may prove to be too hard, and is frankly a waste of time when there's a credible geopolitical threat on our doorstep.