Witty-Village-2503
Witty-Village-2503 OP t1_j6j3sti wrote
Reply to comment by merien_nl in Banning TikTok Won’t Do Much Good by Witty-Village-2503
Easy, Facebook is an American company that spies for the American government. Tiktok is a direct competitor, so the US gov is seeking a ban to protect Facebook.
Why else would Facebook be paying a republican firm to spread misinformation about tiktok?
Witty-Village-2503 OP t1_j6isljv wrote
Reply to comment by mtsai in Banning TikTok Won’t Do Much Good by Witty-Village-2503
It's literally an opinion piece by the editors of Bloomberg....
Witty-Village-2503 t1_j6ey1st wrote
Reply to comment by erosram in TikTok’s master plan to win over Washington — Millions spent on lobbyists, a billion spent on safeguards. Will it be enough to stay in the United States? (26 Jan. 2023) by marketrent
But if that really was a concern then the US should be adding data protection laws. Facebook is already giving data to China.
Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms
Witty-Village-2503 t1_j5qcyur wrote
Reply to comment by _thankyoucomeagain_ in TikTok reportedly threatened to terminate remote employees who don't live near their assigned office location by Sorin61
Why so mad?
Witty-Village-2503 t1_j3z32fq wrote
Reply to Scoop: Warner mulls expanded TikTok bill by jone_net
Enact user protection laws for social media: 🙅♂️
Ban non-american owned competitor to Meta: 😃✨
Witty-Village-2503 t1_j1ebze9 wrote
Reply to comment by EtadanikM in TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists - ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses by BasedSweet
I'm not American, but, like, all the fears about tiktok are also true for American social media companies.
Arguably Facebook has been used to promote election misinformation more than tiktok.
So why ignore these companies?
Facebook Acted Too Late to Tackle Misinformation on 2020 Election, Report Finds
Witty-Village-2503 t1_j1daupv wrote
Reply to TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists - ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses by BasedSweet
So, these were employees of bytedance who were fired.
But did the US do anything when Uber did the same but way worse?
Uber allegedly tracked journalist with internal tool called 'God View'
Witty-Village-2503 t1_iydfqgs wrote
Reply to comment by Myfirespraygunship in South Dakota bans TikTok from government-owned devices by Sorin61
It's not, but the media needs another tiktok story for clicks
Witty-Village-2503 t1_ixqfzcq wrote
I only ever hear about quality issues with Tesla's.
Witty-Village-2503 t1_iwvy90n wrote
Reply to comment by MasterpieceBrave420 in The Only Way the U.S. Can Win the Tech War with China by Vailhem
For real...
Americans: it's not a war crime when we do it
Witty-Village-2503 t1_iwuvyjb wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in The Only Way the U.S. Can Win the Tech War with China by Vailhem
Bro, what?
Did you forget about the war the USA started in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan only the latest US war to be driven by deceit and delusion
Witty-Village-2503 t1_ish441s wrote
Reply to comment by El3ctricalSquash in China censors online chatter after anti-Xi Jinping protest; Hong Kong media muted by Saltedline
Wish people understood this. Also in USA and Canada we have a terrible social credit score system already, you know, the credit scores?
Witty-Village-2503 t1_is6jqkv wrote
Reply to comment by MyNameIsDaveToo in Netflix undercuts Disney+ with launch of its $7/month ad-supported plan starting Nov. 3 by Marshall_Cleiton
Reading the article might have helped....
> The streaming giant will beat rival Disney+ by one month, which is launching its ad-supported plan at $7.99 per month on December 8, in tandem with a price hike of its ad-free plan.
So, yes. They are undercutting Disney with this price.
Witty-Village-2503 t1_jdy8zax wrote
Reply to comment by Khoza604 in China Energy proposes $1bn floating solar farm In Zimbabwe by Wagamaga
Social credit? You mean like a credit score? They have those in the US...