Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill
Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill
The company "weaponised" its US users in a lobbying effort against a bill before Congress, sources say.
There's a lot more to this than "LeTs HaTe ChINa!"
Do your research. The bipartisan effort to ban a state owned app has merit. I wish that our leaders would be more educated on other efforts of foreign nations to amass US user data.
Frankly, I hope that this leads us to look inward at how our own US incorporated entities amass and exploit our data. I recognize the trend toward improving that line of effort but feel like it can only go so far.
I guess since our congressmen invest a significant sum of money in big tech, while simultaneously receiving millions in lobbyist dollars, they'll probably continue to ignore a lot of the problems at home.
It seems that the American people vote with payouts in mind, and our elected officials do the same. Unfortunate.
It's quite painfully transparent seeing the fyp page filled with videos immediately agreeing or cheering whatever the Chinese gov has decided their agenda is this month. And of course you need to go hunting to find the mildest of criticism of Chinese gov policies and absolutely nothing on individual high ranking members of CCP.
Is there a reason to care one way or the other about this? Because I haven't been able to come up with one.
Yeah there are lots of reasons. Tiktok has been proven to be harvesting browsing habits, biometrics (facial ID and fingerprints), voice identification, key logging, and more.
You are giving your face, fingerprints, and voice to a state sponsored entity in the age of deep fakes and broad sweeping intelligence operations.
If you're pro China, then this is a good thing. If you care about identity theft, deep fakes, or your credentials being sold on the dark web, then tiktok is a Very Bad Thing.
It's just classic moral panic. Our politicians really want us to hate China when it's like, nah bruh I hate Microsoft.
Yes. It's not great that they're banning a mass communication app. Tiktok is very often used for political communication and while I might support limiting the power of corporations in our political communication I don't support the consolidation into even fewer hands.