Maybe require reciprocal TOS and EULA. If China wants its apps to have this degree of data mining, they can’t ban or limit the reach of apps in China and they have to allow foreign apps to mine the same in China. Their freedoms in the US should be pegged to the freedoms the CCP allows in China.
I say it doesn’t matter. If people choose to use the app, that’s their prerogative. China can run their backwards country the way they wish.
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Tik Tok has some great content creators with interesting content. Some of it I dont understand but suspect thats generational and other stuff does not interest me.
I challenge anyone not to like the content put out by Old Time Hawkey.
It’s raw. I like that. I also have a newfound appreciation for ford ■■■■■■■ rangers.
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banning China’s tiktok … will that mean we have to get digital clocks from China?
So now TikTok is good?
Of course. It was stupid to even consider trying to ban it.
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Security is a concern. But it comes with the territory. Put a warning label on it and move along.
Btw, I see Temu as an ad on this site. Temu is wish dot com for kids. They market directly to children to sell them cheap Chinese goods after studying their habits through intrusive apps like TikTok. (I first heard about it from my 12 year old who doesn’t have a phone.)
If you don’t like it, don’t give your tween a phone or at the very least, regulate their activity/app usage.
They’re your responsibility, not congress’s.
My wife loves Temu, the crap she orders from there is unreal but its dirt cheap. She says its like a lucky dip with about a 30% chance of actually getting something half decent.
Libs talk and money walks. 
Libs talk, tax dollars are sent overseas, laundered through companies with politicians’ children as board members, then sent back into the pockets of libs by PAC doners. So yeah, it walks, just took a longer route than you’d think.
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So it’s legit? I figured it was a scam or phishing operation.
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5079608-supreme-court-tik-tok-ban/
TikTok received a frosty reception in its fight to save the platform at the Supreme Court, which during oral arguments Friday expressed sympathy with the government’s national security concerns about the platform’s ties to China.
“Congress doesn’t care about what’s on TikTok,” Chief Justice John Roberts said. “They don’t care about the expression. That’s shown by the remedy. They’re not saying TikTok has to stop. They’re saying the Chinese have to stop controlling TikTok.”
“So, it’s not a direct burden on the expression at all,” he continued.
TikTok, which has more than 170 million U.S. users, has said divestment is practically impossible and the platform would “go dark” in just days.
“Just on the data collection, that seems like a huge concern for the future of the country,” said Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
He suggested TikTok’s vast trove of information on Americans could be used “to develop spies, to turn people, to blackmail people, people who a generation from now will be working in the FBI or the CIA or in the State Department.”
Tiktok didn’t have a chance based on the arguments put forth by their team. First live listen and it was surprisingly engaging and easy to digest. Was expecting to be drawn out and boring but 2:30 listen went by fast.
They’re idiots.
operationally TikTok will still exist after January. They will just be dropped from US app stores and won’t be able to update their app but content creators will still be free to upload and users consume the content. Bytedance can’t even sell at least the whole Tiktok because the Chinese government will prevent it. Will be interesting if the eventual sale will be part of a larger trade agreement hashed down the road with Xi.
