Yes. It’s not great that they’re banning a mass communication app. Tiktok is very often used for political communication and while I might support limiting the power of corporations in our political communication I don’t support the consolidation into even fewer hands.
Well, they’re not banning the app but foreign ownership. I wish they were targeting the data scraping practices, but then that’d hit US companies, too…
See I honestly think it’s because they’re so old that they genuinely don’t understand that issue
They’re going after TikTok because foreign ownership of a National Security related industry gives them Red Scare flashbacks
Most of the leadership are people who went through the Cuba-Turkey missile crisis, and it fucking shows, you could show these people a hello world program and they’d think it was hacking.
Don’t run yourself ragged worrying about malicious intent when plain old incompetence suffices Occam’s Razor
Yes. It’s not great that they’re banning a mass communication app. Tiktok is very often used for political communication and while I might support limiting the power of corporations in our political communication I don’t support the consolidation into even fewer hands.
Well, they’re not banning the app but foreign ownership. I wish they were targeting the data scraping practices, but then that’d hit US companies, too…
See I honestly think it’s because they’re so old that they genuinely don’t understand that issue
They’re going after TikTok because foreign ownership of a National Security related industry gives them Red Scare flashbacks
Most of the leadership are people who went through the Cuba-Turkey missile crisis, and it fucking shows, you could show these people a hello world program and they’d think it was hacking.
Don’t run yourself ragged worrying about malicious intent when plain old incompetence suffices Occam’s Razor