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However putting this data in the hands of FAANG is no problem at all, and totally can't end up in any nefarious hands.
by jsiaajdsdaa 4y ago
However putting this data in the hands of FAANG is no problem at all, and totally can't end up in any nefarious hands.
- dubswithus 4y agoThe Chinese government censors posts on social media. It’s nefarious by design. Nothing like that happens with FAANG.
- ipatec 4y agoreally? where were you during covid?
- dubswithus 4y agoTrying to get vaccinated at CVS.
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y agoimagine thinking faang is a free speech haven, yikes lol. people in this thread are deliberately pretending faang is all good.
- flyinglizard 4y agoSorry for stating the obvious, but for US authorities having the world’s data in the hands of an American company is a strategic asset, having it in the hands of a Chinese company is a strategic liability.
- mnd999 4y agoIndeed. It’s surprising this isn’t coming from the CIA or the NSA. But then maybe it is.
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- pavlov 4y ago“We must not do anything about recent thing that is very bad and unpredictable because of this other thing which is also quite bad but we’ve been learning to manage it for 15 years”
- waffleiron 4y agoHowever instead of regulating everyone, banning one player and leaving the opportunity for others (including new players) to continue "bad thing" is not a good solution, is it?
- pavlov 4y agoMeta is already extremely regulated, both by governments and externally managed processes like the oversight board. If TikTok were an American corporation that played by the same rules, it would be a massive improvement.
- stale2002 4y agoIt's better than doing nothing! If you want to argue for more laws, go ahead. But don't do this whataboutism where you pretend like you care about these issues, and argue against ways of stopping, at least some of the bad things happening.
- kornhole 4y agoThe dance around that issue will be more entertaining than any dance skit we will see on TikTok. Avoidance of addressing it is the reason Tiktok has been allowed to run as long as it has. Push surveillance capitalism to the max and expose the hypocrisy that can bring down one of America's biggest industries. Well played China!
- hans1729 4y agoNot just FAANG! Smaller vendors are a very significant threat vector, too, precisely because they are smaller. More owners with smaller margins, looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from the available data, thus entering grey areas almost by definition. Entire markets emerged just from this - afaik data brokers dont get access to, say, Apples Databases. At least FAANG has no real business incentive to sell the data directly.
- daenz 4y agoHelp me understand your perspective: are you American or no? I have a hard time understanding why an American wouldn't see FAANG as the lesser of two evils here.
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y agoI am in fact American. Just being real-- everyone has our data already.
- sgjohnson 4y agoBecause the biggest threat to you is your own government, not one half a world away. The Chinese government isn't going to use nefariously collected data about you in order to get a search warrant or something. The American one is.
- plugger 4y agoConversely, if you're an American in America who doesn't travel abroad what is the threat TikTok poses when compared to the FAANGs? Given the cozy relationship between the US and FAANGs I think it's possible to argue that unfettered government access to FAANG data is more of a threat (to the average US citizen) when compared to the Chinese government having access to your user data via TikTok. But I'm not set on any of this and would like to understand more.
- fsflover 4y ago>if you're an American in America who doesn't travel abroad what is the threat TikTok poses when compared to the FAANGs? They could intentionally influence the public opinion about anything, e.g., elections.
- RealStickman_ 4y agoI'm pretty sure Facebook's already been doing that the past few years.
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- croes 4y agoIt's not just FAANG, because of the CloudAct it's the US agencies too