r/technology • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • Jan 15 '25

Social Media TikTok Plans Immediate US Shutdown on Sunday

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-plans-immediate-us-shutdown-153524617.html
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u/Aemort Jan 15 '25

All of this fearmongering is just a distraction from the fact that our own government has been doing the exact same type of surveillance through apps/services based in the US.

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u/__under_score__ Jan 16 '25

no one cares about the surveillance aspect. the national security threat is about China being able to alter the algorithm to influence Americans into believing certain narratives.

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u/Kumquatsaresexy Jan 16 '25

Yeah but its so pathetically put together, it's a unconstitutional slap in the face to Americans.

  1. Bytedance owns only 20 percent of tiktok. The rest are international investors-the majority American.
  2. 3 of 5 board members are American

  3. All of the servers are in the USA.

  4. The national security threat in question is not public. It's unreleased, it's a secret. The public, it's "potential national security risk" because that's what the bill points to. Tiktoks own lawyers can't even have the information and can't defend themselves in court- which is due process. It's shady as hell.

  5. Meta has openly and actively lobbying for this to happen.

  6. The ban was a part of a humanitarian aid package this isn't the origin of a single issue bill.

So basically any president can have a secret reasoning to ban any free form of social media and speech.

Be critical! If it was data, they'd actually pass laws to.protect our data. If it was national security, then they'd ban every app owned by foreign adversaries. But no, it's tiktok, which has countless reasons for any other us owned platforms to be against.

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u/ScHoolboy_QQ Jan 16 '25

Foreign adversaries are not afforded due process or free speech rights.