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Acadia_Due t1_j65a1ig wrote

Can we ban it anyway? The number of weirdos and wanna-bes is off the charts.

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MacMaizer t1_j65a7fo wrote

Is the FBI in charge of that? I mean internet is international and this App is Chinese. Shouldn't another's Agency be heading any investigation?

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strugglz t1_j65abyy wrote

The article can't make up it's mind if the FBI has nothing to say about it or no additional information supporting the ban to provide. You know, aside from well publicized instances of the Chinese accessing "private" user data.

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Bokbreath t1_j65ah2m wrote

Wait. Are you saying we need evidence to ban something ? Never heard that before.

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code_archeologist t1_j65asjc wrote

The driving reason for banning TikTok is one of national security interest. States do not have a right to access the counterintelligence data that the FBI has collected which influenced their decision.

This is a click-bait nothingburger of a story.

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elcafesitodemiami t1_j65b4ne wrote

Isn't Tik tok taking all the advertising market share from all the Silicon Valley companies (google, meta, etc.)? I thought this ban was just a lobying push from American companies to get rid of the competition with a better algorithm?

If it's about national security, didn't Snowden prove that all of these US based companies spy on every American and sell the info to the american government and other firms?

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synchrohighway t1_j65byi3 wrote

I never used it but isn't it just like vine or some shit? It sounds annoying but harmless.

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warywasp t1_j65cgdl wrote

I trust it over Zuckerberg. That pos would sell you out for $.00001, and likely has if you use his garbage

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RantoniFantoni t1_j65ct6o wrote

Replying to strugglz (#1,536,186)

>You know, aside from well publicized instances of the Chinese accessing "private" user data.

Europe wants to have a chat with you and their attempts to force Silicon Valley to split off their European operations to stop NSA mass surveillance. US tech CEOs have repeatedly stated that they will comply with the US government even if it violates EU laws regarding EU user data privacy. And the NSA has been outed several times for spying on European governments.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/eu-court-again-rules-nsa-spying-makes-us-companies-inadequate-privacy

EDIT: This is shit that you would only learn from reading the European press as American press outlets spins and portrays the data privacy issue as a commercial matter and always censors out the fact that Europe considers NSA mass surveillance of it's citizens to be illegal.

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RantoniFantoni t1_j65d4py wrote

Replying to scrtwpnx (#1,536,364)

Here in the US, there's almost 0 coverage of the EU's attempts to split Silicon valley's European operations in order to stop NSA mass surveillance.

It's literally collective amnesia over here. When the EU data privacy issue comes out the American press spins it as a purely commercial concern and ignores that EU commission literally speaking out against illegal US global surveillance.

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NoPossibility t1_j65d67c wrote

Replying to code_archeologist (#1,536,250)

Beyond that, they may have very damning evidence that they’re not going to share publicly because it could compromise agents or methods used to gather that evidence, making future discoveries and evidence harder to come by.

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tedcruzrileycurry t1_j65dzk0 wrote

Because they just made it up. Nobody actually has any evidence. It’s just shit they read on the Internet.

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HEYitsSPIDEY t1_j65fl08 wrote

Replying to strugglz (#1,536,186)

Facebook and Twitter literally do the same exact thing. AMERICA needs actual internet privacy laws, but instead our bullshit politicians wanna go after one platform specifically.

China has your data. With or without Tiktok. China even has their claws in Reddit.

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afrothunder2104 t1_j65imx5 wrote

Replying to RantoniFantoni (#1,536,608)

It isn’t collective amnesia. It’s not unrealistic for a country like the us to be doing the same thing they accuse another country of doing within the us. Of course we would want to prevent the other country from continuing while trying to do it ourselves.

I’m not saying it’s the right thing to do, the right thing is to have none of this happening. But at the same time, this isn’t a fantasy land and there are bad actors all over (I’m not excluding the us, so save your angry responses) so I want my country to be proactive in this one way or another.

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thefugue t1_j65jdrw wrote

Replying to whatshelooklike (#1,537,554)

Snowden didn’t “leak” anything. Everything he drew attention to was covered in the NY Times when the Patriot Act was passed. If people were unaware of the Five Eyes agreement that was because it works.

Besides, there’s no comparison. One is a national security program, the other is a video app with no legitimate social benefit.

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whatshelooklike t1_j65ji9z wrote

Replying to thefugue (#1,537,459)

In the immediate wake of the early NSA revelations, the agency’s director, General Keith Alexander, claimed the NSA surveillance had contributed to the prevention of 54 plots.

Eventually, deputy NSA director John Inglis conceded that, at most, one plot.

Yeah....they sound trustworthy...warrant. you naive human

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SpindriftRascal t1_j65k66q wrote

The substantive issue aside, the FBI might very well have information it can’t share because it’s classified. The FBI sharing or not sharing information about something has very little to do with the merits of that thing.

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whatshelooklike t1_j65k9qk wrote

Replying to thefugue (#1,537,610)

What are you talking about...

On June 6, 2013, Americans learned that their government was spying broadly on its own people.

That’s when The Guardian and The Washington Post published the first of a series of reports put together from documents leaked by an anonymous source. The material exposed a government-run surveillance program that monitored the communications records of not just criminals or potential terrorists, but law-abiding citizens as well.

Three days later the source unmasked himself as Edward Snowden, a National Security Agency contractor.

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RantoniFantoni t1_j65ot76 wrote

Replying to afrothunder2104 (#1,537,483)

Except it's hypocritical to claim that hypothetical mass survelliance by China is evil while we do it and are globally condemned for it while the same press hyping up the China threat is ignoring the European press and EU condemning us for it.

It's one thing to be honest about it, it's a while other to lie out your ass and only hear what you want to hear from Europe. AKA Nationalism.

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RantoniFantoni t1_j65pw7g wrote

Replying to elcafesitodemiami (#1,536,300)

He spoke to MEP's and provided evidence to the EU and European journalists of NSA mass surveillance against EU citizens and European governments and how several EU national intelligence agencies were cooperating with the NSA.

Denmark was the latest country to have an NSA scandal when a few years ago the intelligence service released some government inquiries several years in the making showing that they cooperated with the NSA to help spy on other EU governments and mass internet surveillance on EU citizens.

But the damning part was also their analysis that the NSA also spied on Danish government decision making with regards to the F-35 purchase.

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Wooden_Phase9139 t1_j65r7et wrote

Translation: The federal government wants to stop people from leaving their closed surveillance gardens

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Shirlenator t1_j65w8fa wrote

Replying to synchrohighway (#1,536,426)

TikTok in China and TikTok in practically the rest of the world is supposedly very different. There is a theory that the Chinese version pushes good content like science experiments, museum exhibits, and other educational content, while the non-Chinese version is meant to be as addictive as possible while pushing far less quality content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0xzuh-6rY

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SkyFullofHat t1_j65xjhe wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,539,272)

It's a quote from Clue. Have you seen it? If not, and you want to, don't read anymore because this is a spoiler. I can't remember much about the plot, but I think one of the guests told everyone else there he's being blackmailed for selling secrets to the Russians, when really he's getting blackmailed for having an affair. When they learn of the affair, someone says "So communism was just a red herring!" Because--red. Russia. Communism. Very droll.

Since TikTok is Chinese, and China is/was known as Red China because it's communist (and also their giant red flag), I legit thought you were referencing the movie and I was acknowledging your clever joke.

The movie is great, though.

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mtbaird5687 t1_j660mvt wrote

Nobody here has the info to make a call on this. Will releasing evidence hurt ongoing surveillance and sources...maybe. Is there nothing there and the tiktok concerns are BS... Maybe

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EbolaaPancakes t1_j661hp3 wrote

Banning TikTok isn’t about safety of information. All American companies take the exact same data. Banning TikTok is about American companies not being able to compete. Advertisers are flocking to TikTok which is hurting the bottom line of Facebook, Instagram, ect. Tiktoks algorithm is the best in the game and the Americans are too stupid to figure it out.

So instead of competing, these American companies are trying to get it banned. Considering they are some of the largest donors in the country, it’ll happen eventually.

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MalcolmLinair t1_j664x40 wrote

"Owned and operated by a hostile foreign power" should be evidence enough.

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blahbleh112233 t1_j666wov wrote

Replying to HEYitsSPIDEY (#1,537,028)

Well yeah, its twofold. Outside of nationalism, you have to remember that Zuck is solid blue democrat so Pelosi and crew need to protect their precious donor. Republicans are racist and hate the chinese anyways so will go for it anyways

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Mightypsychobat t1_j67b27o wrote

Replying to RantoniFantoni (#1,536,558)

Haha, Not that it matters. You can post your going to commit mass slaughter every day for weeks and everyone who jobs it was to respond to that will be like "If only we had warning signs that could have predicted this."

They don't do shit but put your name on a list that they don't look at until after there a bunch of dead kids or something. Hear the NSA guy reading my post! I don't think you do a good job.

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CakeNStuff t1_j6a2zob wrote

Quick Litmus Test:

China is accessing Tik Tok User Data.

This is known. AFAIK we the people still don’t know is the full extent of what they’re doing with this data. If anyone wants to correct me here feel free.

Honest to god question here:

If what they’re doing with this data is so bad then why haven’t warnings been dropped by the state department? Why don’t we have the details of exactly what the data is going towards? This is an information gathering scheme on a worldwide scale dealing with two of the largest governments in the world with world class espionage. Bytedance is also buying hardware from some of the largest tech manufacturers in the world and while deploying MASSIVE amounts of infrastructure.

You’re telling me no one has any idea where this data is going and what it’s being used to do?

Like, I get that there’s a layer of secrecy required when dealing with national security interests but this is such a widespread and such an overt act that the secrecy is almost stranger than the issue at hand.

I have my own opinions on this I’m going to leave out but it’s awfully strange that an information state as large as the US is mute on these points. It’s also very suspicious that the US is leading the charge on this with Silicon Valley in tow.

Again, the problem is real but I am VERY skeptical of the US’ reasons for getting into this in the first place.

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Zestfullyclean87 t1_j6aaevu wrote

I’m just there to look at golden retrievers, and someone piping body butter into jars, and I intend on consuming this content for hours.

So yeah. I couldn’t find evidence to ban TikTok either

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nsci2ece t1_j6bq9q1 wrote

Replying to EbolaaPancakes (#1,540,011)

Honestly given that China blocks so much of the global internet that it's easier to list off what isn't banned nowadays, this seems like a fair way of giving China a taste of their own medicine.

And yes, censorship is a big motivator in China's actions but I strongly suspect that the true #1 priority is to artificially prop up their own domestic offerings (after all the firewall is trivial to bypass). Blocking Google helps Baidu, blocking Facebook helps Renren, blocking Whatsapp helps WeChat, blocking YouTube helps Youku, etc.

I generally am strongly against governments restricting a foreign competitor just to help inferior domestic offerings but in this particular case, tit-for-tat.

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Level_Beat5279 t1_j6bw5fa wrote

Lol so many China simps in this thread. Probably bots

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