Tik Tok is a data collection app run by the Chinese Government

[edhopper]

that also has videos. Just so you know why it is dangerous. The current Bill asks for the control to be turned over to an American company.
There is a reason so many agencies and companies ban Tik Tok. If you have Tik Tok on your phone, the Chinese have most of the data on your phone.

[Think. Again.]

1. It ain't the only one...

...and nationality has nothing to do with it.

[edhopper]

2. I think

a foreign hostile nation is certainly an important part to it.

[Think. Again.]

3. Yeah, sure, I guess...

...but I don't want my info stolen by the many American companies either.

[edhopper]

4. True

why i am very careful about what is on my phone.

[Redleg]

7. Yet this doesn't seem to bother most Americans

The silence surrounding the harvesting of our data by U.S. companies is that of a fart made by a microbe.

[Think. Again.]

8. Well said!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. And where do we import our phones from?

China.

We trust them with the hardware and some of the software on our phones yet we aren’t banning IPhones yet.


Can’t have it both ways.

Besides Facebook and x are already sharing and selling our info to China. I will believe tik tok is a problem when they shut down Facebook and x for the same thing they are accusing tik tok of.

https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/developers-in-china-russia-had-access-to-facebook-user-data-for-years-senators-say

[samnsara]

6. i want my tic tok...

..i dont do fb and weaned myself from twitter and rarely use instagram but i have to have my daily dose of Good Boy Ollie!!!!!


Also im pretty sure TEMU has ALL my info anyway

[edhopper]

10. People should have stopped using Twitter

as soon as Musk bought it.

[Igel]

11. If find it ironic.

Had ByteDance been a Russian firm, based in, oh, St. Petersburg, there'd have been calls for banning it years ago and defenders would have mostly self-censored.

[All Mixed Up]

12. Biden needs to be prepared for the fallout if he signs into law a banning of tiktok.

It will be significant. Especially if Trump continues to oppose it. I could see it having a major impact on younger voters, who already are skeptical of Biden.

Biden's campaign, ironically, has a TikTok account. And in their most recent videos, pretty much every comment is asking Biden not to ban the app.

But there's plenty of apps aligned with nations we don't like that you can easily download off the app store, including the Russia equivalent to Facebook: VK. So, does this open the door to banning every app not located in the US? Seems sketchy.

[Handler]

13. This Tik Tok hysteria sounds like...

The hysteria surrounding dungeons and dragons, vaccines, Paul is dead and all the others. I doubt my way of life will
be altered because I watch old music videos on Tik Tok.

[progressoid]

14. Is it?

Is it run by the Chinese Govt?

To be clear, I'm not a Tik Tok user nor a fan of the Chinese government so I'm not defending them. But do we have evidence that they are run by the Chinese govt?

[edhopper]

15. Yes

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/tech/tiktok-data-china/index.html

[progressoid]

17. Ironically, the US government can access our browsing history, phone data etc as well.

Granted, there are some minor barriers to this in the US.

It does seem a little weird that we (citizens and elected officials) seem to be concerned with China doing this but are at ease about our own govt doing it.

[LostOne4Ever]

16. China is an authoritarian government

They wouldn’t think twice about banning a foreign app like Tik Tok.

We are not China.

We have free speech and do business with other countries. Banning an app for being foreign or just collecting data is the opposite of everything we claim to stand for.

Again, we are not China!