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I’m genuinely surprised by the EFF response, it feels misguided and they are conflating two separate issues
by testfrequency 3y ago
I’m genuinely surprised by the EFF response, it feels misguided and they are conflating two separate issues
- nicce 3y agoAre you saying that data should not be protected? Separate issue might be the content manipulation and censorship on TikTok, but "privacy issue" is the biggest argument so far publicly. If you are going to the privacy and data leak argument, then you should apply that for every application out there.
- sangnoir 3y agoThe EFF is correct and brings to light the hypocrisy of fighting companies rather than specific harmful activities, because making those activities illegal will have a very large blast radius and will destroy a lot of "value" in American companies that partake in those very profitable activities. I see it on HN too, people hate on soft targets like Facebook, but their stock options/RSUs/portfolios depend on the respective companies (or sales funnels) depend on the same problematic behaviors. That's how we get "Google ads are evil, but Apple ads are fine. They do the same things, but Apple means well." TikTok is the softest of targets as it's not even American.