House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok | CNN Business
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House lawmakers voted to advance a bill that would ban TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform’s parent, ByteDance, divests the company.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12876226

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.

  • soloner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    139·
    1 year ago

    Fuck your whatsboutism. This is good news; tiktok is a propaganda machine.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      1 year ago

      The cyber security professional inside of me wants to agree with you. The Liberal in me doesn’t want to give the government the authority to ban speech and what citizens are allowed to watch.

      • los_chill@programming.devEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        Same. Just make it so Tiktok cannot advertise to American users or monetize American views. Start with that and wait for another non-ccp app to take that market.

        Edit: Curious why every seems to disagree.

    • Specal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      64·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy is also a propaganda machine, let’s ban this platform too then.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      So you’re going to shut down YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc as well right? Considering they all do the same thing and FB even interfered in an election?