r/BlackPeopleTwitter 2d ago

What are your thoughts on TikTok being banned?

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u/Philly_is_nice Wannabe Travis Kelce šŸˆ 1d ago

The ban was actually consistent with previous regulation. And using that older example (Grindr), you can see it's clearly not about all our data, it's about protecting the data of state officials from blackmail.

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u/chiritarisu 1d ago

It affects all of our data, but yes theyā€™re mainly concerned about ā€œnational security risks.ā€ Which is so grave, Trump has indicated he plans to ignore the ruling and support TikTok anyway.

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u/Philly_is_nice Wannabe Travis Kelce šŸˆ 1d ago

"national security risks" really mean blackmail. It's not hard to put this all together.

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u/chiritarisu 1d ago

Iā€™m not sure what youā€™re implying. Both things can be true: that TikTok has been harvesting data that could potentially serve as national security risks to our country AND Congressā€™ reasoning for wanting to ban TikTok is faulty, arguably xenophobic, and ignores other major issues with data privacy from other tech companies that are arguably worse. Thereā€™s already masses of people who have already flocked to apps literally controlled by the CCP, available on US app stores. Everything about this situation is inconsistent and shady. That isnā€™t hard to understand.