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Weary-Ad-5346 t1_j22ohdk wrote

Reply to comment by Neve_Dreve in TikTok is now banned on mobile devices issued by US House of Representatives by nacorom

While your comment is focused on someone complaining about challenges, banning the app is helpful in the sense that a Chinese company has access to parts of your device. Viewing history, manipulating said viewing history, location, etc. are things that can be used against us. The content form is great in the sense that it takes advantage of the stupidly short attention spans that the general public has obtained. We just need a better alternative.

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Pokethebeard t1_j233ccl wrote

>Viewing history, manipulating said viewing history, location, etc. are things that can be used against us.

If tik tok was banned on those grounds that would open the door to every tech company getting shut down.

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piggybits t1_j234329 wrote

Idk I’m pretty ok with companies syphoning my intimate data outside the confines of their apps seeing real repercussions for a change and getting shut down. We really should be normalizing punishing companies who practice ethically questionable shit

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Pokethebeard t1_j2346j7 wrote

Sure as long as its all companies and not just one just because its owned by a company from a different country.

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piggybits t1_j234n7e wrote

Well it’s not like America has a squeaky clean record but we really can’t ignore what’s been going on in China. Their human rights violations are plentiful and being done out in the open. I’m still trying to wrap my brain around morality police stations set up in foreign nations… out in plain sight. It’s was horrific enough what they do people they don’t claim like the uyghur but tianamen square, Hong Kong, taiwan just to name a few. China has proven themselves an insidious entity trying real hard to play world colonizer 2.0 and we really shouldn’t act like they and America are the same.

That being said I’m not American but I have a bunch of bloatware on my phone from American companies sucking up all my god damn data so in the spirit of equity, let’s actually punish everyone thanks cuz I’m pretty sick of foreigners owning my digital life

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