cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12876226
The measure that sailed unanimously through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is quickly spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance.
US officials have cited the widespread commercial availability of US citizens’ data as another source of national security risk. The US government and other domestic law enforcement agencies are also known to have purchased US citizens’ data from commercial data brokers.
And yet Congress isn’t going after the “American” companies, just foreign ones. It’s not whataboutism to point out an action is entirely ineffective. And the real reason is to shut down competition.
How many times has Zuckerberg stood before politicians having to answer for his shit? How many FTC lawsuits are there now? San Francisco among many other cities/states have sued them.
Don’t make things out to be that Facebook is protected. You’re diluting the water to defend china.
Answering tough questions is free. He’s not going to stop until he’s convicted in a criminal court.