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TikTok plans to sue Trump administration over US ban
TikTok plans to sue the Trump administration over its executive order banning transactions between U.S. companies and the popular video-sharing app as well as its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
"Even though we strongly disagree with the Administration's concerns, for nearly a year we have sought to engage in good faith to provide a constructive solution," a TikTok spokesperson told The Hill. "What we encountered instead was a lack of due process as the Administration paid no attention to facts and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses," the spokesperson continued. "To ensure that the rule of law is not discarded and that our company and users are treated fairly, we have no choice but to challenge the Executive Order through the judicial system," the spokesperson added.
Also at NYT and Business Insider.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by TheRaven on Sunday August 23 2020, @04:07PM (8 children)
The TikTok app (in common with a load of other surveillance capitalism apps) installs with a quite egregious set of permissions. Trump latched onto the concerns as an excuse to ban a platform that gave a voice to people critical of him, but the original concern was quite legitimate: the app is entirely capable of exfiltrating a lot of user data and can easily target specific individuals (after all, they give it a load of personal information directly).
sudo mod me up
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2020, @04:22PM (6 children)
I don't see how TikTok is any different than Facebook. Why aren't we banning Facebook?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2020, @04:38PM
Duuuh... Because Facebook is American and will serve US intelligence requests?
(Score: 5, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 23 2020, @07:24PM (4 children)
The better question is: Why are we using Facebook?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2020, @05:03AM (3 children)
No that's not a better question. It is a different question but wholly offtangent to the topic at hand.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 24 2020, @05:21AM (2 children)
Alright, I'll connect the dots. The bestest, and most relevant question in this case, is: "Why do we insist on being abused by social media?" The basic concept had little appeal to me in it's earliest days. As time goes by, the concept grows more and more abhorrent. But, all the world around me seems to flock to those sites, demanding that they be abused.
Burn 'em all to the ground. TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest. I won't miss them at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @09:55PM (1 child)
And then nobody will be around to protect your rights when they come for something you actually *do* actually care about.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 25 2020, @10:27PM
*cough*
Like, Facebook is going to come running to defend my rights? Didn't those assholes just delete a couple million accounts of people who were protesting the monarchy in Taiwan?
And, wasn't Google working on censoring the internet for the Chinese government?
And, TikTok - what have they done to protect my rights?
Tell you waht - I'll just hand the microphone back to you, and you can tell us all about how big tech social media companies are protecting my rights.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2020, @05:36PM
Wheb has Trump ever considered us? He's concerned about him getting re-elected.