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Why not also ban Instagram? Its algorithm is not categorically less harmful than TikTok's. And its parent company has been known to sell Americans' data to fore
by ramblenode 2y ago
Why not also ban Instagram? Its algorithm is not categorically less harmful than TikTok's. And its parent company has been known to sell Americans' data to foreign brokers and intelligence analysts.
What many of us who opposed this ban are frustrated about is that there are major underlying problems with all large social media companies, and the "foreign adversary" angle gives these companies cover to keep abusing their users just because they happen to be incorporated in the right country.
Most of the TikTok concerns could have been subsumed in a user-rights bill that prevented data from being shared with third parties and limited the scope of what an algo-feed could do under Section 230's safe harbor. Of course, this would have required some real legislating that would have upset some very large donors, so we get the "foreign adversary" bill instead.