One other point I haven't seen in this, more apparent as one living outside the US, is that the world is not China and not-China. American social media and services reach across the world routing everyone's data through American free-for-all collection. That hasn't gone without criticism. Whenever the EU implements some restriction or regulation in this regard, with far lesser consequences even when the policy is bad, the American companies are never happy. But ByteDance is treated as unreasonable for not wanting to sell off their entire entity to a foreign country.
Really I hate TikTok passionately. I avoid using it as much as I can. I hate how addicting it tries to be, hate its moderation standards, hate how easy misinformation spreads. I generally think it's bad for society. Congress making me side with TikTok in this fight is an impressive feat.
It's become more apparent in the past few years that people's trust in American institutions was rather naive. But lately it feels more like even the alarmists didn't see the extent to which it was true.
What do you do even enough people in such positions of power cease to care about precedence? Shaming them is useless as they're already very open and shameless about what they're doing.
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One other point I haven't seen in this, more apparent as one living outside the US, is that the world is not China and not-China. American social media and services reach across the world routing everyone's data through American free-for-all collection. That hasn't gone without criticism. Whenever the EU implements some restriction or regulation in this regard, with far lesser consequences even when the policy is bad, the American companies are never happy. But ByteDance is treated as unreasonable for not wanting to sell off their entire entity to a foreign country. Really I hate TikTok passionately. I avoid using it as much as I can. I hate how addicting it tries to be, hate its moderation standards, hate how easy misinformation spreads. I generally think it's bad for society. Congress making me side with TikTok in this fight is an impressive feat.
It's become more apparent in the past few years that people's trust in American institutions was rather naive. But lately it feels more like even the alarmists didn't see the extent to which it was true. What do you do even enough people in such positions of power cease to care about precedence? Shaming them is useless as they're already very open and shameless about what they're doing.