Witty-Village-2503 t1_j1daupv wrote on December 23, 2022 at 1:32 PM

So, these were employees of bytedance who were fired.

But did the US do anything when Uber did the same but way worse?

Uber allegedly tracked journalist with internal tool called 'God View'

EtadanikM t1_j1e7nce wrote on December 23, 2022 at 5:30 PM

I mean, Tik Tok IS being targeted because it's Chinese. We're NOT trying to be "objective" here. The US has determined that China is an enemy state and so its social media platforms cannot be allowed to access American data due to intelligence risks.

That IS what is happening. No one is denying it.

Uber, Facebook, Twitter, etc. are American so it's fine.

Witty-Village-2503 t1_j1ebze9 wrote on December 23, 2022 at 5:59 PM

I'm not American, but, like, all the fears about tiktok are also true for American social media companies.

Arguably Facebook has been used to promote election misinformation more than tiktok.

So why ignore these companies?

Facebook Acted Too Late to Tackle Misinformation on 2020 Election, Report Finds

Chaos_Ribbon t1_j1eb4o1 wrote on December 23, 2022 at 5:53 PM

But let's be realistic here... it's not fine. And TikTok is being used as a scapegoat to pull media attention away from every other social media that does the exact same thing.

Rather than fix the underlying problem across the board, US politics are only focusing on the one they can't manipulate themselves.

ultradianfreq t1_j1erxwx wrote on December 23, 2022 at 7:48 PM

The US government doesn’t like actual journalists. They like propagandists and idiots who can be taken advantage of.