Good thing ByteDance's plans were thwarted! Now we can feel safe that such things indeed never happen within large social media companies. Oh joy and rapture!
I really enjoy the fact that everyone gets very up in arms because a foreign nation tries to spy on Americans, but the fact that US corporations have to secretly divulge info to the govt regularly is joyously accepted. I'm sure the cognitive dissonance would be astonishing if most of those people were capable of critiquing their own ideology
In agreement with you, it's amazing how much we scrutinize our very own Mark Zuckerberg for this, while giving TikTok a free pass for at least the same level of atrocities (but highly likely even worse things). Why?
Wonder what bubble you're in, I've been seeing a Facebook attack article easily 3-4 times a month for the last three years. I want to see Bytedance's CEO in front of Congress.
Whereas anti TikTok is a recent (and much needed) development. That app is fast tracking through every single pitfall Facebook hit, starting with making users' attention spans less than five seconds, filtering out content based on beauty, giving schoolchildren tics, and all the trust and safety issues.
I think it's because to it's so obviously a bad idea to trust Tiktok that it doesn't make for an interesting debate. Whereas without Facebook you can have arguments going both ways.
I don't think anyone is joyously accepting US corporations divulging information to the US govt., so that hyperbole is completely unnecessary.
I think there is less cognitive dissonance than you think. There is still some belief that the US populace has a hand in the US govt's constitution and governance. If they are unhappy, changes can be effected.
But in the case of a foreign government, an authoritarian one at that, not only are any values and priorities not aligned, there is almost no way for US persons to effect any changes to the CCCP's constitution and governance.
The issue with that line of reasoning is that it will result in a balkanized internet, accelerating what we're already seeing (US companies are under increased scrutiny in the EU, if the US bans TikTok I expect the EU to be more heavy handed on US companies).
We should expect end-to-end encryption and strong privacy from all applications, reducing the attack surface for malicious applications like TikTok or Google.
China has already Balkanized the internet. 1.4 billion people are restricted from viewing outside information and outside access into China is frequently disrupted or just outright blocked. Other countries do the same.
I'm getting strong overtones of "the world revolves around the US". There are lots of non US citizens who are less then pleased that the US is surveilling them but they have no way to effect changes to the US constitution. (in practical terms, does anybody? When was your last amendment made?)
Sir, are you somehow implying a global surveillance system maintained by the American government is undesirable!? Why just because we're endlessly gridlocked, constantly at war, and all our political elites look like Dracula, we're still a very secure and stable nation
