[Lindros]

Good. Honestly fuck that toxic pedo app.

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The order came as the US Senate on Thursday unanimously voted to approve a bill banning federal employees from using TikTok on government-issued devices, amid threats from the White House to ban the company.

The video-sharing app has come under fire from US lawmakers and the Trump administration over national security concerns because ByteDance, a Chinese company, owns the technology. The company faces a deadline of 15 September either to sell its US operations to Microsoft or another US firm or face an outright ban.

Sources previously told Reuters that ByteDance executives valued all of TikTok at more than $50bn.


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Under a Chinese law introduced in 2017, companies have an obligation to support and cooperate with the country’s national intelligence work.

“I’m encouraged by the bipartisan support we have seen in this body to hold the Chinese Communist party accountable and that includes ... holding accountable those corporations who would just do China’s bidding,” Senator Josh Hawley, who sponsored the bill, said in a statement.

“And, if I have anything to say about it, we won’t be stopping here,” the Republican senator added.

Last month, the House of Representatives voted to bar federal employees from downloading the app on government-issued devices as part of a proposal offered by the Republican Ken Buck.

A finalized version of the bill, combining the House and Senate versions, would need Donald Trump’s approval to become law.

When asked if the president favored the legislation, a White House official said: “We support Congress’ intent to protect government-issued devices against the privacy and security risks inherent in certain third-party applications.”

A TikTok spokeswoman said its growing US team had no higher priority than promoting a safe app experience that protected users’ privacy.

On Wednesday, TikTok said it was working with experts from the US Department of Homeland Security to “protect against foreign influence” and fact-check potential misinformation about the election.

The company has increasingly emerged as a platform for political discourse and activism. Users recently said they helped inflate attendance expectations at Trump’s June rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Last year, the company said about 60% of its 26.5 million monthly active US users were aged 16 to 24.

SOURCE
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...tiktok-ban

[Schwertgeist]

This is good news but the craziest part is the EO that goes after Tencent. Tencent has its hands in a lot of tech/gaming companies

[StayPlural]

Good. Honestly fugg that toxic pedo app.

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...tiktok-ban

Well now Instagram made an almost exact copy of their API and now faceboom/instagram is flashing these "reels" which are 95% of the time underage girls dancing. This agenda is fucking crazy.

What a monopoly Facebook is.

[maryous]

crazy how people here are defending china like really ?

[Ultras]

If you can't beat them, ban them?

[Prepper]

I feel this ban is more political than for security but oh well.

[Lindros]

I feel this ban is more political than for security but oh well.

What are you talking about? Even the Dems agree on the security concerns.

[BlackDarwin]

I really don't get how youths of today are stupid enough to download this Chinese malware. Even when you're not using it it records literally EVERYTHING you do with your device, including what other apps you use, browsing history, even phone calls, and sends all of it to China. Having this kind of malware spying on you on behalf of some random black hat in Russia is bad enough, but here we're talking about the CCP, possibly the most evil regime in the world. The fact that hundreds of millions of youths around the world willingly submit to this makes me so sick I want to throw up my guts. 🤮

[Lindros]

I really don't get how youths of today are stupid enough to download this Chinese malware. Even when you're not using it it records literally EVERYTHING you do with your device, including what other apps you use, browsing history, even phone calls, and sends all of it to China. Having this kind of malware spying on you on behalf of some random black hat in Russia is bad enough, but here we're talking about the CCP, possibly the most evil regime in the world. The fact that hundreds of millions of youths around the world willingly submit to this makes me so sick I want to throw up my guts. 🤮

It's sickening. It doesn't help that US tech companies have helped China build the most technologically advanced, oppressive dictatorship in the entire planet and LITERALLY lie for them.

If our own cultural institutions would actually tell us the truth, this stuff would be common knowledge. It's hard to not be ignorant when you are literally raised to be by society.

What is happening and has been happening to the US and other European countries is infuriating and makes my blood boil.

[hfvenomous]

I have never understood the thing about TikTok, how did it become so popular but Musical.ly (which it was called previously) didn't?

Also the CCP stealing data isn't also so comforting.

[X-32]

It's not banned yet...
It will be banned if a US company doesn't buy it in 2 months.

[ĐĮΜĘ]

Tik Tok is flooded with pedophiles. Not to mention its essentially spying on everyone's devices and sending data back to the Chinese government. On the other hand were all having our data collected at some point or another but what I have seen from that app is some twisted stuff. Thought it was a stupid app when it surfaced.

[ost11850]

this is great a bit of a shame fr me becuse it was profitable with ewhoring and...
but about time

[California]

What are you talking about? Even the Dems agree on the security concerns.

Can you or anyone provide evidence to our security being jeopardized? You can't. There has, however, been several occasions where we have lied about that to get the advantage in the market or geopolitically (Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iraq, etc.)

Its crazy, people say this app is just a Pedo app with underage girls on it. What would the CCP gain from that?

This is just another attempt to contain China, which is not going to do anything but make them more determined to become a superpower.

[luv.]

crazy how people here are defending china like really ?

Facebook sells the same information to China?