Poll of the Day > Trump may BAN popular APP because of COMMUNISTS!

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Extreme_light posted...

Good. But I'm kinda amused at certain 1A conservatives backing this.

Counterpoint... It's Tiktok.

then they should have banned facebook and a lot of other stuff a long time ago

hell facebook even gathers info on your phone contacts and they arent even using facebook

Errrm... I don't get the point of this comment. Do you think I wouldn't be in favor of banning facebook for doing the same thing or something?

That's most apps, though, to say nothing of the phone operating systems themselves. Pretty much every online-connected product or service you use today gathers some amount of data on you, to be sold to whoever will buy it. TikTok is particularly egregious about it, both in terms of the amount/nature of the data gathered and how insidious and aggressive it is (the app will actually alter its code to conceal how much data it's gathering if it detects that somebody is looking too closely at it), but I very highly doubt that's why the US government is taking umbrage to it. The US government is upset because they want more access to and control of said data than China is willing to give them. I can almost guarantee that if a US company made an identical app, nobody would be complaining (outside of the data security folks that currently complain about all social media because they understand the implications).

There is a massive world of difference between an app gathering data with your consent, an app gathering data and selling it to advertisers, and an app specifically designed to gather data for a foreign government without the knowledge or consent of the people utilizing it.

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Unbridled9 posted...

There is a massive world of difference between an app gathering data with your consent, an app gathering data and selling it to advertisers, and an app specifically designed to gather data for a foreign government without the knowledge or consent of the people utilizing it.

Do you really think those other examples I gave aren't also hitting all three of those points? Heck, do you really think China isn't already buying user data from Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, or any other major data collecting company?

Don't get me wrong, TikTok is really bad for how invasive it is, but any efforts to find a legal basis on which to ban it are inevitably going to be affecting the entire data industry if they're applied with any sort of consistency, and the fact that that will include the US government means they won't be applied consistently. That sets a really sketchy precedent to move forward with.

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Joker_X_II posted...

All social media should be banned.

This.

I will be deleting my last form of it soon. Just need to figure out the specifics, backup my pics, and decide who I still want contact with and how to go about it. The people I actually care about all have my number but I don't want to accidentally cut anyone out of my life

Bye bye Facebook! I dont need you.

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This is a social media platform.

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EvilMegas posted...

This is a social media platform.

Anonymous and not an intrusive app.

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Was it the late 90's or early 2000's when it came out that China was using lead paint for toys destined for American children?

2018:
https://uspirg.org/news/usp/recall-toys-still-found-lead-paint-decade-after-virtual-ban
2007:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/business/worldbusiness/19toys.html


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Yes ban it

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