President Biden signed a bill that states if TikTok doesn't cut ties with its China-based parent company ByteDance over the next nine months to a year, it will be banned in the U.S.
That’s just moving some goalposts. My reply was purely for this person who said Tik Tok needs to be banned because they showed a message to users saying they’re about to be banned and asking people to defend them, and this is something other tech and social media companies can do and have done as well. They didn’t say anything about the message itself, which wasn’t terrible at all. It said no lies, there was no mind control in it.
And btw, Meta is bad for their users as well. Cambridge Analytica fucking got us Trump through Facebook and Instagram. That’s bad for the whole country, including all their users. We need a general tech privacy bill, like Europeans have been getting, not this protectionist shit to help US oligarchs keep their billions.
There is a difference between a corporation advocating for the public good, and a corporation advocating for its own good. If your direct comparison is “well, why did no one want to ban Google for telling people to not support SOPA/PIPA” you have to acknowledge that distinction. Google et al were perceived to be useful companies advocating for an important cause, while TikTok is not as well-regarded and therefore its advocacy is (or will be) seen as self-serving.
And btw, Meta is bad for their users as well. Cambridge Analytica fucking got us Trump through Facebook and Instagram. That’s bad for the whole country, including all their users. We need a general tech privacy bill, like Europeans have been getting, not this protectionist shit to help US oligarchs keep their billions.
Oh you’re not gonna get any disagreement out of me. The point of my rather flippant response was exactly that- TikTok only gets called out because of the Sinophobia being pushed by Conservatives right now, when all media corporations are the problem.
That’s just moving some goalposts. My reply was purely for this person who said Tik Tok needs to be banned because they showed a message to users saying they’re about to be banned and asking people to defend them, and this is something other tech and social media companies can do and have done as well. They didn’t say anything about the message itself, which wasn’t terrible at all. It said no lies, there was no mind control in it.
And btw, Meta is bad for their users as well. Cambridge Analytica fucking got us Trump through Facebook and Instagram. That’s bad for the whole country, including all their users. We need a general tech privacy bill, like Europeans have been getting, not this protectionist shit to help US oligarchs keep their billions.
There is a difference between a corporation advocating for the public good, and a corporation advocating for its own good. If your direct comparison is “well, why did no one want to ban Google for telling people to not support SOPA/PIPA” you have to acknowledge that distinction. Google et al were perceived to be useful companies advocating for an important cause, while TikTok is not as well-regarded and therefore its advocacy is (or will be) seen as self-serving.
Oh you’re not gonna get any disagreement out of me. The point of my rather flippant response was exactly that- TikTok only gets called out because of the Sinophobia being pushed by Conservatives right now, when all media corporations are the problem.