•  Pigeon   ( @Lowbird@beehaw.org ) 
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    231 year ago

    Maybe ban targeted advertizing, or that degree of spyware, for all companies, instead of opening that pandora’s box of giving the power to ban social media apps altogether to the government.

    Especially since the anti-tiktok bills actually include a lot of other stuff, up to and including making VPN’s illegal.

    •  Steeve   ( @Steeve@lemmy.ca ) 
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      51 year ago

      Targeted advertising isn’t even on the same playing field of sketchyness as “massive and unchecked data collection by the Chinese government”. Even mentioning it in the same sentence seems like an attempt at forum sliding.

      And while I agree that the bill is an overreach and absolutely shouldn’t go through in it’s current form, it’s exactly what would be required to achieve your authoritarian stance of banning all social media.

      • Really? Because you could argue that targeted advertising lead to the January 6th riots.

        The chinese government doesn’t really benefit from data collection on western citizens. At least not if they don’t work for intelligence agencies or want to proclaim that Taiwan is a country while being on mainland China.

          • What is your point? Tell me, what the chinese government is supposedly doing with non-chinese user-data that is not worse than what the US surveillance capitalism is currently doing?

            Do you seriously think that China spread misinformation about “stolen elections”?

    • Every US bill includes a lot of other stuff. That’s Congress’s gig.

      The US needs a tighter set of restrictions like what the EU has been passing out lately. But, that doesn’t change the fact that ByteDance is a Chinese corporation, under the control of the Chinese government, and has no pretenses of data regulations.