Fareed Zakaria: This should send chills down every American's spine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZynsHe_vJY Apr 9, 2023 CNN host Fareed Zakaria explains why legislation proposed for a nationwide ban on TikTok is frighteningly "Orwellian."
Response on youtube: Tarso Werlang Why does our government allow corporations to dig so deep into our personal data for their profit. Screw that. If we had comprehensive data protection, TikTok wouldn't be an issue. In fact, none of these companies would be an issue.
Grizzled Nerd To me part of the issue is the conflation between the US's lack of meaningful privacy legislation and a specific app, in this case TikTok, that's a risk due to the current geopolitical issues. There's lots of examples of effective privacy legislation out there (Europe's GDPR for example) that could be used as a starting point. The real issue is that the on sale of customer private information is a very lucrative business and US legislators consistently fail with the Ethics vs Money question.
Paul C I instintively thought that this sounded like collective paranoia, thank-you Fareed for explaining in detail something that my gut feeling was telling me was wrong. Group thinking and tribal behaviour based on no facts exists in all societies.
Michele Engel -articulate argument against banning the TikTok app in the U.S. I was unaware of the alternatives, in terms of national security and privacy issues, and ignorant of the political impact it would have on the free flow of information.
Caroline : US intel committee will never permit a comprehensive data privacy law. They would lose the best mass access spying tools they have ever had.
Elizabeth Lode You can tell there's a tension in the air - I smell fear and thus exaggerated reactions to others actions are starting to show on so many levels. Fearful humans are dangerous. What have we done and what will befall us now?
Stacey Gruver The issue with TikTok is the way in which the app is presented in China compared to the rest of the world. In China it is exclusively a educational / musical educational platform, there is not cute dances, tricks or any activity that does not support education and life skills. Especially in the United States it was designed to be addictive and waste young people’s time, instead of being constructive and educating themselves. It also was designed to create division not only between races, but generations. The final pice is it extrapolates massive amounts of data not only from your device, but any device that clicks onto your TikTok feed.