• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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…

    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      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