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The measure that sailed unanimously through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is quickly spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance.
US officials have cited the widespread commercial availability of US citizens’ data as another source of national security risk. The US government and other domestic law enforcement agencies are also known to have purchased US citizens’ data from commercial data brokers.
I’d love to see the data on this. Provide an unbiased source please.
Most recent news.
2018 case showing Zuckerberg does not care.
2015 allowing Chinese advertising, in the same time frame the Russians were allowed to run targeted ads.
They were sharing data all the way back to 2010.
If any of that shit is true, I’d love to see ALL of shut the fuck down. So it looks like your whataboutsim failed yet again.
And yet Congress isn’t going after the “American” companies, just foreign ones. It’s not whataboutism to point out an action is entirely ineffective. And the real reason is to shut down competition.
How many times has Zuckerberg stood before politicians having to answer for his shit? How many FTC lawsuits are there now? San Francisco among many other cities/states have sued them.
Don’t make things out to be that Facebook is protected. You’re diluting the water to defend china.
Answering tough questions is free. He’s not going to stop until he’s convicted in a criminal court.