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[–] Veedems@lemmy.ml [S] 32 points 3 years ago (3 children)

We should be saying both are bad. We need much stronger, EU like privacy laws.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

And how would privacy laws be applied to TikTok, which is outside the jurisdiction of these laws?

The only way to get TikTok to have any privacy policies at all is by threatening to block them.

Which is what's happening.

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[–] lps2@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 years ago

TikTok isn't outside of that jurisdiction, they are operating in places like the US. If they violate privacy laws, you remove them from accessing that market

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[–] absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml 1 point 3 years ago

No one who has ever said "neither Washington nor Beijing" has ever meant it; and marks you as just another Beltway settler afaic.

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[–] TowardsTheFuture@vlemmy.net 5 points 3 years ago

I think that is generally the point?

Often Americans point to china as big bad for shit America is actively doing as well, while pretending America is so great. They both fucking suck. They both want to be the major super power and to do so they both do horrible shit to their own people, people in other countries, entire other countries, both extremely capitalistic, etc.

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[–] pressanykeynow@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Not on the mass media.

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[–] vegantomato@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago

Mass media are at their core propaganda tools. Their mission is to further the agendas of whoever finances them, they are not driven by the pursuit of truth, justice or anything related such as the defense of privacy.

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[–] FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

politicians are actively talking about banning tiktok. let me know when they do the same for twitter, instagram, reddit, facebook, tinder, youtube, google, amazon, and every other US site that does the exact same snooping that tiktok does. THEN we can say “both are bad”.

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[–] vegantomato@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

I think you've got it backwards. If we can't acknowledge that both are bad before talking about banning them, then what justification do we have for banning them?