Banning TikTok…
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has introduced bi-partisan legislation to ban TikTok (pvt) from operating in the US. The bill titled “Averting the National Threat of Internet Surveillance, Oppressive Censorship and Influence, and Algorithmic Learning by the Chinese Communist Party Act”, has a stated purpose to “protect Americans from the threat posed by certain foreign adversaries using current or potential future social media companies that those foreign adversaries control to surveil Americans, learn sensitive data about Americans, or spread influence campaigns, propaganda, and censorship”, using the presidential powers of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The bill proposes that all transactions of Bytedance (pvt) and TikTok be blocked, preventing commercial operation in the US or with a US person (intelligence activities are excluded) and covers potentially similar threats from Hong Kong, Macau, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela that would qualify as social media companies.
There has been talk of such proposals a number of times over the last few years, with little support, and certainly continued resistance from the ~80m active TikTok users in the US, and with the controversial takeover of Twitter (pvt) by E. Musk, such a ban would garner even more focus from users, who are obviously not concerned about their personal data being harvested by nefarious governments. If you need any reinforcement of idea that TikTok users are certainly not afraid to reveal their innermost secrets or reveal their knowledge level (or lack thereof), the video below from TikTok user SSSniperWolf, a 30-year-old actress (aka Alia Marie Shelesh) who has posted over 3,000 videos and has over 33 million subscribers and over 20 billion (billion!) views. A few minutes will reveal the ‘sensitive data’ that is of concern to the esteemed senator from Florida.
https://youtu.be/FJXD5zMRUhM
There has been talk of such proposals a number of times over the last few years, with little support, and certainly continued resistance from the ~80m active TikTok users in the US, and with the controversial takeover of Twitter (pvt) by E. Musk, such a ban would garner even more focus from users, who are obviously not concerned about their personal data being harvested by nefarious governments. If you need any reinforcement of idea that TikTok users are certainly not afraid to reveal their innermost secrets or reveal their knowledge level (or lack thereof), the video below from TikTok user SSSniperWolf, a 30-year-old actress (aka Alia Marie Shelesh) who has posted over 3,000 videos and has over 33 million subscribers and over 20 billion (billion!) views. A few minutes will reveal the ‘sensitive data’ that is of concern to the esteemed senator from Florida.
https://youtu.be/FJXD5zMRUhM
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