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The US is just upset that Tik Tok doesn't allow the US gov to influence their content or access their user's data like Facebook, Twitter, and Google does. That
by yesbut 4y ago
The US is just upset that Tik Tok doesn't allow the US gov to influence their content or access their user's data like Facebook, Twitter, and Google does. That is all this is about. The US gov just wants more backdoors and control.
This isn't a defense of Tik Tok or any of these platforms. They are all collecting massive amounts of user data and all of them are privacy nightmares. But this Tik Tok ban stuff is partially anti-China theater and mostly "why won't you allow us access and control like the other guys are doing?" garbage. This would all go away overnight if Tik Tok put ex US FBI or CIA staff on their board of directors.
- vinyl7 4y agoI remember when Zoom got all the same attention as TikTok is getting being a Chinese spying tool, but it's been awfully quiet on that front for a while now. I wonder if Zoom coughed up some lobbying bucks or something, and this is just another extortion attempt
- yesbut 4y agoZoom must have bribed, I mean donated, to the right politicians. Its all theater. "It would be a shame if something were to happen to that big tech company of yours...."
- cscurmudgeon 4y agoAccording to OpenSecrets: Zoom spent $240,000 in 2022. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?id=D000075452 https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary... Compare that to TikTok's $5.4 million in the same year https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?id=D000073174 https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary... By your logic, TikTok should be supersafe.
- ipaddr 4y agoThey put backdoors in