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I use that every time I see that clown. Had high hopes for that guy. Boy did he get bought off fast.
One eyed McCain i
They don't want the competition is all this is.
Only until they shoot your dog.If the government passed this bill, could people use a VPN to get around it?
But why should the government have control over our choice in that? I don’t personally use TikTok, but if someone else wants to use any platform, on their own device, with their own information, that is none of the government’s business.It says that a foreign adversary(Russia, China, Iran, North Korea) can't have control over a platform, has to be us.
Same reason why the government shut down nazi radio stations during ww2.But why should the government have control over our choice in that? I don’t personally use TikTok, but if someone else wants to use any platform, on their own device, with their own information, that is none of the government’s business.
(a) In general.—
(1) PROHIBITION OF FOREIGN ADVERSARY CONTROLLED APPLICATIONS.—It shall be unlawful for an entity to distribute, maintain, or update (or enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) a foreign adversary controlled application by carrying out, within the land or maritime borders of the United States, any of the following:
(A) Providing services to distribute, maintain, or update such foreign adversary controlled application (including any source code of such application) by means of a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) through which users within the land or maritime borders of the United States may access, maintain, or update such application.
(B) Providing internet hosting services to enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of such foreign adversary controlled application for users within the land or maritime borders of the United States.
(2) COVERED COMPANY.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term “covered company” means an entity that operates, directly or indirectly (including through a parent company, subsidiary, or affiliate), a website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application that—
(i) permits a user to create an account or profile to generate, share, and view text, images, videos, real-time communications, or similar content;
(ii) has more than 1,000,000 monthly active users with respect to at least 2 of the 3 months preceding the date on which a relevant determination of the President is made pursuant to paragraph (3)(B);
(iii) enables 1 or more users to generate or distribute content that can be viewed by other users of the website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application; and
(iv) enables 1 or more users to view content generated by other users of the website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application.
(B) EXCLUSION.—The term “covered company” does not include an entity that operates a website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application whose primary purpose is to allow users to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews.
As I read it, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea can't own more than 20% of an app that has more than 1,000,000 users a month, that operates as a social media platform, or control the data and servers running it.(2) Covered nation.—The term “covered nation” means—
(A)
the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea;
(B)
the People’s Republic of China;
(C)
the Russian Federation; and
(D)
the Islamic Republic of Iran.
That's the part that gets me.... These are OUR peasants!!!!!They don't want the competition is all this is.
Maybe one day we can have a CFF lunch and I can take you all through what I know. It's public knowledge. And it is in every freaking app you give permission too, They have the right to sell it.I've been saying that to my friends and family for forever. They always get weird about having alexa, or worried their tv has spyware/a cam, or worried about their roomba having the footprint of their house. If the corporations/government want any info from you, they get what they can from mobile providers and phone manufacturers. I think your phone GPS would pretty accurately lay out your floor plan with more information on where you are than anything else.
You mean the .gov wants a monopoly on the interwebs so they can program you the way they want you to think. Kind of similar to how they want a monopoly on firearms tooThat is not what it's about...The government only wants media it can control, internet forums and podcast are currently out of government control. The government want the same control it has over the M5M, legacy media, FB, and Twitter.
This crowd they gotta be rainbowSo we're getting a Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment..... What colour are the uniforms, black or brown?
Two easy examples:I have to wonder, though, how does a bunch of short videos about things like the difference between a priest and pimple being the pimple waits till it’s 13 to cum in your face buy any intel for China?
Are you more concerned about spying from the CCP or NSA?
China is using tiktok against Americans. Making what is essentially mind crack, foisting it on kids who have poor impulse control, sending all the data back to China, and letting them curate what kids see.
"Why HAVE we."Hell guys, they don’t allow it, why would we.
Two easy examples:
The node IPC hack. Node.ipc was an open source Java library that was on a toooon of servers. When the Ukraine invasion happened, the the maintainer changed the code of this library, where it would check if you IP was from Belarus or Russia, and, if so, wipe the computer. It was a giant wakeup call to the open source community, because they realized how dangerous it could be to trust the code from the open-source community, this one guy killed decades of trust.JavaScript library updated to wipe files from Russia systems
Package used by big apps now drops anti-war text files on desktopswww.theregister.com
What if the Chinese communist party told ByteDance to push an update to overwrite the data on peoples phones and desktops/laptops that have tiktoc installed?
Here's another one. What if ByteDance used location data to determine all the phones in DC, langely, Bethesda area, maybe nsa Georgia, all military bases. You can't bring phones into a scif, but it still happens. And people working on scifs go home and talk to their family members, who might have tiktok installed. What if all the phones with tiktok in those areas had tiktok, who has access to microphone and camera, turn those on and start listening in? Or maybe just targeted, just the family of people on the House Intel oversight committees?
And I've worked with people like who you may be taking about.
I trust China, you know, the people doing active genocide and organ harvesting of their own people, who view all actions from military to economic to everyday life as an extension of the communist party and Marxist struggle, those guys, less.
From H.R.7521Again, I posted the text of the proposed law. If it is a trojan horse, I'll be right there with you against it.
Just point out the part of the bill that's the trojan horse.
(g) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) CONTROLLED BY A FOREIGN ADVERSARY.—The term “controlled by a foreign adversary” means, with respect to a covered company or other entity, that such company or other entity is—
(A) a foreign person that is domiciled in, is headquartered in, has its principal place of business in, or is organized under the laws of a foreign adversary country;
(B) an entity with respect to which a foreign person or combination of foreign persons described in subparagraph (A) directly or indirectly own at least a 20 percent stake; or
(C) a person subject to the direction or control of a foreign person or entity described in subparagraph (A) or (B).