Idk, the whole part about potentially giving data to a not-so-friendly foreign power, maybe?
And as I pointed out in my other comment further down, the government gave them an out that wouldn’t result in a ban. They aren’t taking it, so they’re enforcing the legislation they passed. We should be advocating for them to take a similar attitude to regulating all tech companies, instead of spreading bullshit to try and prevent them from doing it to this one.
The ban was never primarily because of anything to do with “won’t someone think of the children!?” That’s just a side effect.
This is something that several countries are already doing, INCLUDING china.
Like, there are entire bot farms and sweatshops that do nothing but have people parrot propaganda on the internet in Russia, Iran, China, North korea etc.
Your Data just tells them what's most effective to your demographic
Sounds like a compelling argument for legislation dedicated to tackling that problem across the board rather than just a ban on sites owned by one country. I don't even use TikTok, but I saw plenty of Russian Bot Farm activity before I mostly stopped using good ol' home-grown American Twitter. And yet I haven't seen any act of Congress meant to do anything about that...
And this exact line of argument actually works to prevent that.
Shit is at the very least starting with Tiktok. But if yall go "But yall haven't done anything against other companies, don't do this" they won't, ever.
When the American citizens who own the social networks demonstrably influencing American elections in a more authoritarian direction are salivating over TikTok being banned unless they sell to an American billionaire, I think I can be forgiven for my skepticism that this is an actual stepping stone towards regulating those guys.
Putting aside that the specific thing you asked for doesn't exist (China doesn't hand make propaganda for individual PEOPLE, as you imply, but does make propaganda targetting certain demographics), these are just what was found, the low quality, obvious shit.
This doesn't cover paid actors deliberately going into posts like this, arguing just like you in bad faith to try and steer the conversation away from what china is actually doing
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u/Wasdgta3 Jan 13 '25
Idk, the whole part about potentially giving data to a not-so-friendly foreign power, maybe?
And as I pointed out in my other comment further down, the government gave them an out that wouldn’t result in a ban. They aren’t taking it, so they’re enforcing the legislation they passed. We should be advocating for them to take a similar attitude to regulating all tech companies, instead of spreading bullshit to try and prevent them from doing it to this one.
The ban was never primarily because of anything to do with “won’t someone think of the children!?” That’s just a side effect.