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> The difference is that when the servers are in China the US government can't get that kind of access/cooperation. Except that TikTok’s data, or the main copy
by wumeow 3y ago
> The difference is that when the servers are in China the US government can't get that kind of access/cooperation.
Except that TikTok’s data, or the main copy of it at least, resides in the US, so the evil US govt theoretically already has access to it. That’s not the motivation for this bill.
- autoexec 3y agoI know they've said they would plan to store American's data on US-based servers, but wouldn't promise to stop sending data back to China or keep ByteDance from accessing it. I'm not sure that the US government having exclusive access to this data enough to make them go this far.
- packetlost 3y agoIt's not about access to the data, it's about access to controlling or influencing the content that users see.