• @42yeah@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Please help a fellow non-US citizen understand. How can this be a bipartisan agreement and, what’s its difference to the “video games cause violence” bit? I dislike TikTok as well (and I will never use it) but I think banning it nationwide is taking it too far.

    • @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      How can this be a bipartisan agreement

      Both sides dislike other countries having the spy power. Or anything, really. US got serious overcompensation issues with being the biggest and baddest at everything.

      What’s its difference to the “video games cause violence” bit

      China likely actually is spying and TikTok probably does actually do some harm, unlike video games and violence. Definetelt nowhere near justification for this shit though.

      • Zerlyna
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        37 months ago

        Ahhh you just triggered memories of Tipper Gore.

    • smnwcj
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      The US has two parties, one which is very nationalistic and loves cruelty, and one that is very bureaucratic and loves controlling information. This creates a bureaucratic structure which increases control over citizen info, in a way that presumably hurts another country and stifles progressive youth.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      37 months ago

      Well the video games thing was people thinking games caused violence. This is people thinking the CCP has access to TikTok’s data. The problem is all of our social media apps, and cars, and smart devices are selling data to China. So we aren’t plugging a hole. We’re just forcing a “fire sale” where a rich American can buy TikTok for cheap.

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      27 months ago

      This isn’t a consumer protection thing; it’s a national security thing.

      Unfortunately, they’re not banning all social media because they’re vectors for destroying privacy and manipulating consumers; they’re banning only the Chinese one because it’s a vector for Chinese spying and propaganda. They want only American-owned companies to be in a position to manipulate Americans, and they want that manipulation to continue.

    • @sabin@lemmy.world
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      The issue is not with the applications psychological effects on children (although i’m sure politicians bring that point up in passing to bolster their argument). The basis for the removal of the application is that it is spyware with rootkit capabilities.