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Pass a privacy law, stop arbitrarily banning. What exactly would be the justification for forcing the sale rather than passing a law solving the actual problem?
by endisneigh 3y ago
Pass a privacy law, stop arbitrarily banning. What exactly would be the justification for forcing the sale rather than passing a law solving the actual problem?
- thaumasiotes 3y agoTo do the second thing, you'd need some kind of statement of what the problem was.
- kevinventullo 3y ago… which can be understood and articulated by the median congressperson. A tall order indeed.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoWhy would that be a requirement? There's no need to understand, or state, the contents of a bill in order to pass it. But there do have to be contents, and whatever you put in there is subject to media coverage.
- nickthegreek 3y agoThe actual problem is threat of algo manipulation in times of crisis. But they apparently don't want to make that their argument. It's the only valid justification imo. Data privacy should apply to all companies.
- nrb 3y agoIt’s probably an issue of messaging: telling a population that someone is misusing the information, potentially militarily, is an easier pill to swallow than telling them they are susceptible to algorithmic manipulation by a foreign adversary. And do they even want to open the can of worms about their susceptibility to domestic manipulation?
- BlueFalconHD 3y agoBut the government hates online privacy. It stops them from spying. And (though I don't know this for a fact) I feel tech giants could be lobbying against privacy laws.
- IncreasePosts 3y agoWhat would the privacy law entail? Would a privacy law even prevent the CCP from pushing content onto every American who uses TikTok?
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoTikTok has no reason to follow US law. It is doubtful they will allow auditors to ensure compliance.
- jimmydoe 3y agoThat’s half of Valley to fight against. Not going to happen.