My data is already bought and sold by companies. But when government agencies do it, suddenly we only need to stop them. Stop this madness. It shouldn’t matter if it’s corporations or a government, why not stop the sale of people’s data?
My data is already bought and sold by companies. But when government agencies do it, suddenly we only need to stop them. Stop this madness. It shouldn’t matter if it’s corporations or a government, why not stop the sale of people’s data?
But… But… TikTok bad!!
…Yes
Just because one thing is bad doesn’t mean other things can’t be.
Tiktok is bad because it weaponizes short attention span laziness and feeds depression.
TOR is bad because there is a good chance the government has stripped away its privacy capabilities.
Frankly in my mind that makes Tiktok a fucktonne worse.
Most of the people ‘harmed’ by TOR exit node scraping are pedos and illegal weapons dealers.
Most of the people harmed by tiktok is literally 2 generations of youth.
Can you not see the difference?
For me, if data tiktok collects is “bad” but same collection is being done by the government, and if the data they deal in can be easily obtained from any of countless legal data brokers, then the problem isn’t a single app the rage machine has been incited to hate.
https://www.techdirt.com/2020/07/29/banning-tiktok-will-accomplish-nothing-fix-our-broader-security-privacy-problems-instead/
Full disclosure: I don’t use tiktok, ex-twitter, FB, IG, SC or other corpo social media. I just look past the popular outrage to the main problem: lack of meaningful privacy legislation.
Your argument about the downsides of tiktok (attention span and laziness) applies to anything you want it to since the invention of books or recorded music (right through TV, video games rock & roll, cell phones…), which were also considered attention span suckers and conduits for evil.