Das US-Repräsentantenhaus verabschiedet einen Gesetzentwurf, um ByteDance zu zwingen, TikTok zu veräußern, andernfalls droht ein Verbot

by ExactlySorta

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  1. TikTok is really just the carrot here though – the bill isn’t just TikTok – it gives the President powers to ban basically anything they deem a “national security risk”.

    Amazed people haven’t read the bill a bit more deeply – it’s very concerning to say the least

  4. It makes sense.

    Any social media owned in part by any goverment especially foreign ones should be banned regardless of what cou they it is.

  5. It’s amusing that the “No” votes came from both the far-right and far-left members of Congress. It’s the politicians in the middle who support taking action.

  6. All ByteDance has to do is choose to sever ties with entities subject to control by the four foreign adversaries the bill explicitly focuses on: Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, and it will no longer be subject to the ban. The bill does not target American companies or even foreign companies in general; that would be unfair. It focuses on Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, and no one can deny that these four are legitimately adversarial to US interests.

    No one criticized the Grindr divestiture when CFIUS said its Chinese ownership was a ‘National Security Risk’ and had to be sold off. And that happened under Trump. Interestingly, Trump now doesn’t want TikTok to be forced to divest from China, something he tried to do himself. A visit from a hedge fund billionaire and TikTok is cool now.

    And it will be bad for the tech industry if China retaliates and forces social media companies to divest. Oh wait, that’s right…

  7. All they have to do is divest the company from Bytedance to avoid a ban. The fact that they seem completely uninterested in that is very telling. TikTok is CCP spyware and information warfare.

  8. I just feel bad for Neil Patrick Harris – he just started tiktoking!

  12. Now do this with Facebook, twitter and every other American company stealing peoples information

  13. Maybe they could try banning something that is really hurting kids, like… you know… AR15’s and Assault Rifles.

  14. Somehow this is what our government comes to a consensus on? That Facebook and YouTube money must be good.

    I just wish we had common sense data privacy laws to protect us instead of just, “CHINA BAD”.

  15. These politicians are trying to win elections on the platform of “eat your vegetables “. I just don’t get it.

  16. Facebook and instagram need to go as well…

    I don’t care how many down votes I get for this comment

  18. How dare tiktok sell our information! That’s stealing jobs from american social media!

    Like, I get that tiktok collecting our information is bad, but what’s stopping the same information leaks or misinformation dumps from US social media?

  19. So all of that think this is a good idea are y’all also gonna be ok with the government using your ring cameras, your cell phones, any of your home security cameras connected to WiFi to monitor your activity and conversations in your house. That’s what is hidden in this bill. Have yall forgotten all the stuff the hid in the patriot act. This government is out of control and this censorship needs to stop

  21. Are they ever going to vote on something that is actually important to the American people?

    People need affordable food and shelter first.

  22. In practice how would the US ban tiktok? The honor system? There’s no Great Firewall of the United States as far as I know. Every single ISP in the US has to use the government block list?

  24. So it is widely known that Mega and Google are the absolutely worst at bypassing security settings and stealing your data … but hey let’s go after the one where the US government can’t control the propaganda?

  25. It won’t stand up in the courts if it even gets through the Senate.

  26. it’s called tiktok because it’s designed to waste time, tick tock goes the clock

  29. AOCs comments sum it up perfectly

    “I’m voting NO on the TikTok forced sale bill.

    This bill was incredibly rushed, from committee to vote in 4 days, with little explanation.

    There are serious antitrust and privacy questions here, and any national security concerns should be laid out to the public prior to a vote.”

    So TikTok will have to sell off its American assets, you can imagine the short list of companies that have the money to buy this…

    Also, watch the testimony that TikTok’s CEO, Shou Chow, made last year. It seemed Congress already had made up its mind on wanting to ban TikTok and basically grilled him for hours.

    Personally he seemed reasonable, saying that TikTok doesn’t collect any more data than an American tech giant would. He proposed to move data to American servers, on American soil, operated by an american company, with a third party American company in charge of oversight. Congress wouldn’t even entertain this idea.

    Furthermore, the US is acting on the possibility of China harvesting data even though there is no public hard evidence. The theory is Byte dance (headquartered in China) would be forced to comply with Chinese directives, thus having to force tiktok (headquartered in Singapore/LA) to comply.

  34. Only trying to Ban Tiktok because US Gov can’t tax Tiktok’s. Once they find a way to get a piece of the profit, it’ll be as legal as weed is now.

  36. If it passes the Senate I wonder what’s gonna happen. China would be pretty loathe to surrender control of an app this widespread and effective at data collection.

    If they do wind up selling I’d keep an eye on whoever buys.

  37. I don’t understand. One of the arguments is that china could post a notification saying the elections were cancelled. But couldn’t a Russian troll farm operating on Facebook do the same? What is this really going to accomplish if the users are still fed the same lies?

  38. Ah good. Oracle can buy them now.

    Oracle is already a partner with TikTok as they provide the US server services.

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