Biden just signed a potential TikTok ban into law. Here’s what happens next
“Longstanding Supreme Court precedent protects Americans’ First Amendment right to access information, ideas, and media from abroad,” said Nadine Farid Johnson, policy director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. “By banning TikTok, the bill would infringe on this right, and with no real pay-off. China and other foreign adversaries could still purchase Americans’ sensitive data from data brokers on the open market.”
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It's pretty obvious that the #TikTok ban is for at least two reasons:
- American corporations don't want to lose any of that lucrative user data.
- The US government doesn't want to let the free flow of information out from under their thumb. They want to keep pumping us full of disinformation and propaganda via American social networks that they have some degree of control over.
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Just got wind of this federated #TikTok clone. #Fediverse #Fedi #Mastodon
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#TikTok is intentionally designed to take attention away from the individual video creators. :/
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Young people scrolling through #TikTok project the same energy as Boomers flipping through television channels.
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Not true!
Pushing buttons on most remote controls require order of magnitude more force (and energy) than swiping across glass phone screens.
Pushing buttons on most remote controls require order of magnitude more force (and energy) than swiping across glass phone screens.
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •now would be a critical time for lawmakers to start acknowledging privacy concerns and start enforcing protections for users against corporations.
but i dont even know if thats possible without crashing the data collection/resale industry.
if they cant give us privacy, cant provide competitive alternative, and cant provide proof for inspection... then why not just let these poor ass users gain immediate benefits from it(TT).
its not like the gov is going to swoop in with basic income, medicine, housing.. etc.
those are all things that the platform provides info or access to.
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