> A spin to a US company is not enough. It needs to cease operating in the US because there’s no surety that even with a spin data and sharing won’t get back to ByteDance China.
Can we apply this logic to Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc?
I personally only support a ban of TikTok if we apply the logic universally. Such services are weapons, and weapons are sure to be weaponized.
All centrally mass collected, plaintext or effectively plaintext data will sooner or later be co-opted by state actors.
Best to ban the practice of bulk plaintext data storage entirely unless it can all be E2EE and anonymozed to the point of being useless to the companies storing it.
> Can we apply this logic to Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc?
I personally only support a ban of TikTok if we apply the logic universally. Such services are weapons, and weapons are sure to be weaponized.
All centrally mass collected, plaintext or effectively plaintext data will sooner or later be co-opted by state actors.
Best to ban the practice of bulk plaintext data storage entirely unless it can all be E2EE and anonymozed to the point of being useless to the companies storing it.
We can ostensibly anyway regulate the American social media companies whereas the Chinese ones are a black box even though they might operate here under an American entity. That’s why we are here. They claimed they didn’t share data but they do. And that’s how the whole algorithm and value works
Can we apply this logic to Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc?
I personally only support a ban of TikTok if we apply the logic universally. Such services are weapons, and weapons are sure to be weaponized.
All centrally mass collected, plaintext or effectively plaintext data will sooner or later be co-opted by state actors.
Best to ban the practice of bulk plaintext data storage entirely unless it can all be E2EE and anonymozed to the point of being useless to the companies storing it.