Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
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Re: Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
#2Rather than blocking a single app, they should bring in GDPR style laws that make apps like tiktok banned by default unless they change to be strongly privacy protecting.
Re: Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
#3Rather than blocking a single app, they should bring in GDPR style laws that make apps like tiktok banned by default unless they change to be strongly privacy protecting.
that'd probably kill every American social media app on the app stores as well, not sure they're ready to do that.
Re: Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
#4We need to push back on this nonsense in journalism in which journalists don't include a link to the opinion when writing an article describing that opinion.
There is not enough information included in the article to meaningfully comment on the situation.
Edit: here is the order, which is very short: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.222257/...
The opinion is under seal, and the parties have been directed to raise objections to unsealing it, if they wish.
Re: Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
#5I get the feeling the Trump Administration’s lawyers are going to fumble the full ban lawsuit in November allowing Bytedance to retain control of TikTok.
If this were an actual national security issue then you’d think they’d come up with more compelling reasons to remove it from the App Store.
Re: Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
#6We need to push back on this nonsense in journalism in which journalists don't include a link to the opinion when writing an article describing that opinion. There is not enough information included in the article to meaningfully comment on the situation. Edit: here is the order, which is very short: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.222257/... The opinion is under seal, and the parties have been d…
I think the judge said the opinion is temporarily under seal for some reason.
Re: Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
#7We need to push back on this nonsense in journalism in which journalists don't include a link to the opinion when writing an article describing that opinion. There is not enough information included in the article to meaningfully comment on the situation. Edit: here is the order, which is very short: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.222257/... The opinion is under seal, and the parties have been d…
Maybe not in this specific instance, but the times I have tracked down original sources they often disagree with the way the journalists have framed things. They know most people won't bother to do any original research or even read past the headline in a lot of cases. It's easier to tell people what to think than give them the facts and let them reach their own conclusion.
Re: Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
#8Rather than blocking a single app, they should bring in GDPR style laws that make apps like tiktok banned by default unless they change to be strongly privacy protecting.
That doesn't generally align with America's approach to these sort of things. A law like that would have made the internet itself very hard to develop.
Re: Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
#9Nice to know that Apple was given equal legal consideration in China in 2016 when its iBooks store and iTunes movie store were suddenly ordered shut after six months of operation. Oh, wait. . . they weren't given any legal recourse at all and the Obama administration did nothing about it while Silicon Valley grandees kept conspicuously silent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/technology/apple-no-longe...
Re: Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
#10Rather than blocking a single app, they should bring in GDPR style laws that make apps like tiktok banned by default unless they change to be strongly privacy protecting.
That doesn't generally align with America's approach to these sort of things. A law like that would have made the internet itself very hard to develop.
No, it would have made targeted advertising on the internet be very hard to develop. The internet existed before targeted advertising, with site-specific advertising based on the interests of a site. Stalking users across sites for the purpose of targeted advertising is a much newer development.
I agree that this doesn't align with the US's general approach to this sort of thing. That is a fault with the US's general approach, not with privacy protections.