Your opinion on the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” and it’s consequences, including that TikTok will likely shutdown this Sunday.
The final decision is up to Trump, isn’t it?
Tiktok (and i guess Xiaohongshu lol) getting banned would be hilarious but tiktok being forced to sell to Musk would be even funnier and I kinda hope it happens because I want to see how he would manage to break it
I think that the forced sell is a violation of freedom to speech.
I think so because if all social networks are USA oligarchs controlled then in America will be only government propaganda and this isn’t healthy for democracy in America
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A forced sale or a ban would not be acceptable. When YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and other apps weren’t around, I would have been in favor of TikTok being banned. However, since all of TikTok’s users can now simply go brainrot and provide their data to YouTube or Meta rather than TikTok, the ban or forced sale is pointless unless they also take action regarding the US-based competitors.
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Exactly. I’m not sure whether this ban is due to residual red scare type sentiment in the US, the geriatric nature of US politicians, lobbying from Meta to obtain greater market dominance, an effort to distract from real issues, or some combination of these reasons. But it’s clearly not a genuine move to protect the personal data of US citizens. Facebook/Meta isn’t exactly careful about protecting user data from leaking into foreign countries, and has faced essentially no repercussions for this. If it’s election meddling or manipulation of the general public they’re worried about, we’ve seen plenty of that from Twitter/X recently, and Facebook/Meta in the past as well.
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This is completely true. If Tiktok was banned earlier, it would be great since a decent chunk of the trash online would’ve been eliminated.
Mostly off-topic, but most of my contemporaries—“fellow” young people—struggle with seemingly basic tasks since they’re occupied with absolute crap from Tiktok, YouTube Shorts, and other platforms. If these had sane restrictions, the current generation would 100% have a bit more hope for the future. However, as we all know, it’s unlikely to happen so it will continue this way until.
Constitutionally speaking, in the case of Tiktok/Bytedance, nope. Freedom of speech doesn’t apply to foreign companies, and the courts have decided that the reasoning passes the strict scrutiny requirement for interfering with a constitutional right even if it did apply. And in terms of the speech of users, they are not having their right curtailed as their speech can be transmitted via literally any other platform
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So, then what is a good enough reason? That’s the biggest problem is the comprehension of most Americans. I’m not speaking for all, but I have a background in IT and I doubt it should be this difficult to understand the following article.
Once your data is online, it’s nearly infeasible to request its deletion or redaction.
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(I am NOT a US citizen so my understanding on Federal laws / state laws are extremely limited, please correct me if any of my understanding is inaccurate.)
I think it would be much easier for people to accept it if the ban is based on a better law, and be a bit more transparent on the whole matter.
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, from what I see, implies that “it is okay for any companies to do the exact same thing to US citizens, just not ByteDance”. But in fact, no companies should be allowed that kind of thing, and US citizen’s data should be better protected from all companies.
It seems like the US citizens are frustrated with the inconsistency and opacity of US government,to a point that they could not really trust it. In many sense, is seems justified (well, US government has excellent track record on evading their own laws and conducting covert mass surveillance).
This is the first time I skim through the law, so I might missed important parts, but at first glance, if I was a US citizen, I wouldn’t want it to pass or enact neither.
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I though VPN’s allowed for a modicum of Privacy yet somehow TikTok just showed they can side-step VPN usage.
I would guess they are just blocking all VPN providers with their CDN.
Oh interesting. That makes sense.
One explanation could be that TikTok is blocking all accounts registered with an American phone number as well as computers associated with those accounts.
I tried VPN to US and it couldn’t access TikTok, but if I vpn to UK it worked (without logging in), Tiktok seems blocking US IP and users registered using US IP / phone number.
Not sure about device part.
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TikTok is back online
Wired say they are actually looking at your sim contry code. Had no idea this was possible.
Trump issued a 75-days non-enforcment executive order.t
TikTok appears to censor views critical of Musk and Trump. Might be to cozy up to Trump and avoid ban.
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