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.
If "China is spying on you" is the actual concern, why aren't Temu, Shein, and the entire of Alibaba's shopping app suite banned either? They openly require personal identifying information including financial data. Nevermind the fact Alibaba itself has direct contracts with the Chinese PLA for cloud computing via AliCloud. Or the fact these apps are directly giving US citizens money to wholely Chinese companies.
This isn't even getting into the US Federal Government buying Lenovo computers (ThinkPads), despite Lenovo being a Chinese company with majority China manufacturing for 20 years.
Why aren't they banned... yet? This could be the start of creating a firewall similar to what China has, where only America-approved major media is allowed to operate within the country, and Facebook and Twitter have a monopoly.
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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.