The swift rebuke shifts attention to the Senate, where the bill faces significant political barriers and constitutional concerns
The swift rebuke shifts attention to the Senate, where the bill faces significant political barriers and constitutional concerns
It’s a step in the right direction given that it’s the most egregious widespread example, but I suspect that the vote might have been closer if TikTok extended the same rules and protections it has for children in China to the US. As it is, it is very hard to argue the platform is acting in good faith when the app’s behavior changes so much in the places it cares about vs the ones it doesn’t.
For all the people crying censorship, I will note that there are no shortage of competitors with similar platforms and even looser moderation. Many of them with less of a foucus on lowest common denominator content slurry. Who knows, maybe the youths of today will even start using forums again like us ancients of the internet.
This is a good point - TikTok in China is almost a completely different app. It almost could be considered educational.
I am indifferent towards TikTok, but that is mostly because I don’t use it. I can see why there might be some national security concerns due to the amount of data it collects and due to the CCP having some strings in Bytedance. I think it would be better if this was more a set of regulations for all social media companies, not just a ban.
I do agree the vote probably would have been closer if it were a set of data regulations and privacy laws; Facebook and Google would lobby the shit out of that.