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,, TikTok is China’s backdoor into Americans’ lives.” He added, “It threatens our children’s privacy as well as their mental health’’ At this point the legisla

,, TikTok is China’s backdoor into Americans’ lives.” He added, “It threatens our children’s privacy as well as their mental health’’ At this point the legislation should just copy Chinese law: it already limits what social media can show to kids to just education, and also disallows apps from other countries.

imbnwa 4y ago
Except the point isn't anyone's mental health or privacy, or they would've acted on Facebook or Instagram a long time ago. This is a campaign to eliminate TikTok as a competitor in the American social media market, nothing more.
- xeromal 4y ago
  I disagree. I'd say it's more of "We own American data through typical backdoor channels. China shouldn't have that privilege". As an American citizen though, I'm inclined to agree.
- pessimizer 4y ago
  Not even. It's a campaign to threaten TikTok into giving censorship and editorial power to the US government equivalent to what they have on the other large social media networks, and it already worked. Now it's just grandstanding from local nationalists.
  - ergocoder 4y ago
    "grandstanding from local nationalists"? You do know China and US are in multiple global conflicts, right?
dirtyid 4y ago
Except PRC laws has allowances for foreign operated platforms if they follow PRC data and media filtering laws - what TikTok is basically doing in US, i.e. why Google and Facebook had teams working to get back to PRC market before internal drama killed project. Efforts to get Oracle (and lol walmart) to buy stake in TikTok comes close to PRC JV model / system. Unilateral platform ban is US going beyond what PRC is doing, which is fine - not many choices now that TikTok has penetrated US market more than US platforms in PRC (which did well). It's also fine to acknowledge US is left with legislative sledgehammer option that's much more protectionist and paranoid than PRC.
snehk 4y ago
> and also disallows apps from other countries There is no such law.

imbnwa 4y ago

Except the point isn't anyone's mental health or privacy, or they would've acted on Facebook or Instagram a long time ago. This is a campaign to eliminate TikTok as a competitor in the American social media market, nothing more.

xeromal 4y ago
I disagree. I'd say it's more of "We own American data through typical backdoor channels. China shouldn't have that privilege". As an American citizen though, I'm inclined to agree.
pessimizer 4y ago
Not even. It's a campaign to threaten TikTok into giving censorship and editorial power to the US government equivalent to what they have on the other large social media networks, and it already worked. Now it's just grandstanding from local nationalists.
- ergocoder 4y ago
  "grandstanding from local nationalists"? You do know China and US are in multiple global conflicts, right?

dirtyid 4y ago

Except PRC laws has allowances for foreign operated platforms if they follow PRC data and media filtering laws - what TikTok is basically doing in US, i.e. why Google and Facebook had teams working to get back to PRC market before internal drama killed project. Efforts to get Oracle (and lol walmart) to buy stake in TikTok comes close to PRC JV model / system. Unilateral platform ban is US going beyond what PRC is doing, which is fine - not many choices now that TikTok has penetrated US market more than US platforms in PRC (which did well). It's also fine to acknowledge US is left with legislative sledgehammer option that's much more protectionist and paranoid than PRC.

snehk 4y ago

> and also disallows apps from other countries There is no such law.