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The concern is subversion and malign influence, which is a very real problem. USMC University has a book on political warfare that covers the topic fairly. The
by than3 4y ago
The concern is subversion and malign influence, which is a very real problem. USMC University has a book on political warfare that covers the topic fairly.
The politicians don't want to touch privacy or security laws since that would negatively impact their benefactors as opposed to actually doing their jobs for their constituents.
Its a power grab, hopefully it won't get passed because of the loose undefined wording that could apply to anything they so choose like in ways described in Ayn Rand.
- alexfromapex 4y agoTencent also has a very large stake in Reddit, I wonder if there's any plan to investigate influence operations there.
- beezle 4y agoYes but Twitter and Facebook have already been used for that purpose and continue to be used in that manner. I get that it is not appropriate on government phones in case they manage to leverage a zeroday but for the average Joe I'm not seeing the risk of TikTok being any greater than the rest of the social media world - the same info is shared/available.