mclumber1 Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would effectively ban TikTok from America unless the current owners can sell their stake in the app within the next 6 months. The bill will now go over to the Senate. And if it's passed by the Senate, President Biden has promised that he would sign the bill into law. Just a moment... WWW.POLITICO.COM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Honestly I'd rather they just pass a digital info protection law that prevents companies from collecting and using info to push content algorithms onto people. 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 's on the clock But the party don't stop, no Oh, whoa, whoa-oh Oh, whoa, whoa-oh 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 A gift to Zuckerberg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 1 minute ago, CitizenVectron said: Honestly I'd rather they just pass a digital info protection law that prevents companies from collecting and using info to push content algorithms onto people. That would be far to clean of a solution and would shine a light on all manner of bad actors in both the private sector and government. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricofoley Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Does the Biden admin think that because the vote was bipartisan that Gen Z is not gonna hold it against Biden? Because I definitely wouldn't count on that. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 4 minutes ago, Ricofoley said: Does the Biden admin think that because the vote was bipartisan that Gen Z is not gonna hold it against Biden? Because I definitely wouldn't count on that. Gen Z has the attention span that rivals the length of a TikTok video, so I'm assuming Biden will be fine come November. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricofoley Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Well, apparently the bill gives ByteDance 180 days to sell before the ban goes into effect, so that puts it in, what, September? That seems like very bad timing for the election! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 I feel like this would be like putting a gun to your head and pulling the trigger. Do these politicians not understand how popular TikTok is with young people these days? And if you do feel like it has to be done... why do it right before an election? I feel like the people who want this to happen won't care nearly as much as all the people who will be deeply pissed off about it. It would not be popular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 The bill is probably DOA in the Senate anyway. TikTok ban's fate is uncertain in the Senate, where there is less urgency to act WWW.NBCNEWS.COM Senators have a variety of ideas on how to address TikTok, with many saying they are sympathetic to national security concerns and believe there's a need to act. Quote Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said the Senate is unlikely to accept the House bill as is and called for an open amendment process to make changes to it. “I think it’s more than likely that we will take up their bill and amend it and say we’ve come up with some areas where we think it needs improvement,” Cornyn said. “My concern is that if you try to deal with this by name, you’re playing a game of whack-a-mole, because what’s TikTok today, next week it’s TokTik or TicTak or whatever.” He added that the Senate won't act as quickly as the House did. “We do things slowly over here, and this takes time,” Cornyn said. Quote Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was noncommittal on whether the Senate would vote on the House bill, telling reporters Tuesday, “I’ll have to consult, and intend to consult, with my relevant committee chairmen to see what their views would be.” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: A gift to Zuckerberg Is that you, Donald?!? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 TikTok was already close to selling from the push in the past. Most likely they will just sell and users won't notice the difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 25 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Is that you, Donald?!? A fire sale that benefits the incumbents! but really bytedance will sell and unless they just want to burn the whole platform down (doubtful) then users probably won’t notice any difference. I’m fine with not allowing Chinese owned companies to operate relatively freely here, but there are other ways this could work without a forced sale. I may have mentioned this here before but my old company was being purchased by a Chinese firm, the CFIUS forced some changes to protect data from leaving the country through an off site third party monitor who reported independently to CFIUS. And we had to protect customer PII/CSI and HIPAA controlled health records for government employees and individuals through that third party who technically owned that data. and any requests for any communication or data to be sent to the parent company would be subject to monitoring by the third party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioandsonic Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unogueen Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Good thing bad faith influencers don't exist elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Boy wouldn't everyone love this? Ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick pitched buying TikTok to potential partners, including Sam Altman: report WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM Bobby Kotick floated the idea of buying TikTok to both ByteDance cofounder Zhang Yiming and OpenAI's Sam Altman, The Wall Street Journal reports. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finaljedi Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 How's about we address data privacy and not just get jealous of China's great firewall. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unogueen Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air_Delivery Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 I agree that a more general data privacy bill would be good, but I don't think it really addresses the main issue which is that TikTok is Chinese owned. As shown in the past they can be incredibly sneaky on how they gather data and US laws don't really mean shit to the Chinese governement. Furthermore an adversarial government collecting data on our citizens is a different animal than corporations who just want to sell you shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 9 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: Boy wouldn't everyone love this? Ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick pitched buying TikTok to potential partners, including Sam Altman: report WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM Bobby Kotick floated the idea of buying TikTok to both ByteDance cofounder Zhang Yiming and OpenAI's Sam Altman, The Wall Street Journal reports. Even worse! Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is putting together an investor group to buy TikTok WWW.NBCNEWS.COM Mnuchin did not specify who the other investors would be in such a deal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 From what I'm reading, the only people in the Senate who are even remotely interested in paying any attention to this bill from the House are Marco Rubio and Mark Warner. Practically every other senator has shrugged and said, "Whatever." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 I just love the salt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 2 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: From what I'm reading, the only people in the Senate who are even remotely interested in paying any attention to this bill from the House are Marco Rubio and Mark Warner. Practically every other senator has shrugged and said, "Whatever." Of course fucking mark Warner is involved. He fucking sucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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