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- brainworms@lemm.ee
- technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12778902
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First ban Discord or Instagram.
You know they won’t cos they don’t give a shit about our privacy, about us.
Don’t ban anything. Pass legislation to protect data rights and make them all safe platforms.
First, it’s not a TickTok ban. It’s a ByteDance ban. ByteDance could sell TickTok to another company outside China and TickTock would be fine in the US.
Second, it was never about protecting user data. It was about preventing China from tweaking the algorithm to try to subtly influence public political opinion, instead of maximizing generic rage and political polarization, to exploit for ad dollars.
Yet nobody cares about US companies like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube manipulating public opinion with their algorithms.
Yes we do
