Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban in unanimous ruling
Although President-elect Donald Trump could choose to not enforce the law, it's unclear whether third-party internet service providers will support the app.
Good. Now do all the other social media companies that are also spying on people and also pushing propaganda.
Oh wait, I forgot that the rest of them are Western companies.
If the Dems weren't the Bottom of the couple, they'd go on the offensive and use this ruling to get privacy and data mining sanity installed. Since tech are some of their biggest donors in the last 20 years, that won't happen.
The perks of having all political power purchasable.
Good idea or not is debatable.
But at the SCOTUS level it's just about weather or not the government has the power to decide if and how a Corp can operate in the US. Which it obviously does, since Corporations aren't people and have no rights.
Given the pro Corp majority on the court, this decision is a little surprising to me. I'd be shocked if they made the same call for a domestically owned Corp.
I don't why people are acting so surprised that a government might be okay with "friendly", so to speak, companies collecting citizens' data and not comfortable with a company that is cozy with a foreign, historically antagonistic country.
Like, this isn't the hypocrisy gotcha that you think it is.
I would like to see that happen. That said, my understanding is that TikTok's data collection is enough to make other social media platforms blush (at least, it was once upon a time. They probably made it worse since then). That, coupled with China not exactly being the US's bestie, makes me feel this is at least a start.
You can't even create TikTok account without installing their app on your phone first. I initially tried and purposefully did not want to have me phone mined, and was unable to register.
But actually the data mining is not the biggest issue even. The biggest issue is that a foreign government (especially since China doesn't work like other Western countries and directly controls what their companies are doing) has influence over 17 million Americans.
Unanimously??? We are absolutely cooked.
It's amazing how well and efficiently the government works to uphold the interest of their owners. True bipartisanship.
Thumbnail looks like the black lodge. Hail David Lynch, I can't believe we now exist in a world without him
Ban it. Ban red book. We'll go to Vietnam next.
GovCo can suck my dick.
I can’t wait for the government to learn the futility of trying to block teenagers from something they like.
It’s like when Napster got destroyed and suddenly there were dozens of file sharing programs.
