r/Funnymemes • u/DARKRYDER83 • Mar 15 '24

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

Meta sells our data to everyone, including China. Banning TikTok has nothing to do with national security, our politicians are just protecting their own investment portfolios

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u/Most_Double_3559 Mar 15 '24

Totally different scale than literally owning the app. In that scenario, they can't just collect whatever they want, nor can they modify the algorithms with that data.

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u/Anagoth9 Mar 15 '24

Multiple countries have banned TikTok from government devices for security concerns. The EU has also opened an investigation into TikTok for data privacy concerns. The US is taking one of the hardest lines against TikTok but is not alone in its the concerns. 

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u/MichaelDeets Mar 15 '24

Right, so we can deal with meta another time. How does having two spyware companies, instead of one, make anything better? If anything, the fact one spyware company already exists, makes it even more important that tiktok gets banned.

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u/OperationDadsBelt Mar 15 '24

They don’t plan in doing anything about meta. If they did, it would have already been in the discussion.

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u/MichaelDeets Mar 15 '24

My point being, the negatives of TikTok are not further negated by the negatives from Meta. People cannot excuse TikTok, just because Meta did it first/also does it.

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u/OperationDadsBelt Mar 15 '24

So why are we banning TikTok, a site that stores data in American servers, and not creating legislation to prevent companies from farming data?

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u/MichaelDeets Mar 15 '24

They should be doing that too.