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Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

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Re: Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

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Post by drawkward »

fidotron wrote: post #68

By the given reasoning every official at the EU wonders why they ever allowed Google, Facebook or Twitter to exist. This is balkanization.

My representatives represent me, my country, its citizens and its government. They specifically do NOT represent foreign entities.

Re: Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

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Post by johnnyanmac »

rwarfield wrote: post #103
briffle wrote: post #21

Still have no good answer on why its bad for a company that is supposedly under Chineese influence to collect this kind of information on us, and adjust and tweak an 'algorith' for displaying content. But its perfectly fine for a US company to do it? Wouldn't the right solution be to protect the citizens from all threats, foreign and domestic?

Because for all of Mark Zuckerburg's flaws (or Elon, or whoever), America is unlikely to go to war with him?

Of course not. He's already winning the war and "The People" have no voice in that matter.

Re: Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

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Post by empath75 »

fidotron wrote: post #68

By the given reasoning every official at the EU wonders why they ever allowed Google, Facebook or Twitter to exist. This is balkanization.

An EU controlled app would be allowed in the US as none of them are foreign adversaries.

Re: Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

shmatt wrote: post #25

Maybe someone smarter than me can explain - how both Biden and Trump can hint or announce they wont enforce the law. Signed laws upheld by the Supreme Court can be filtered out by the President? News to me.

Congress writes the law but the executive enforces the law. They can choose not to enforce the ban.

Re: Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

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Post by boredpeter »

zug_zug wrote: post #86
briffle wrote: post #21

Still have no good answer on why its bad for a company that is supposedly under Chineese influence to collect this kind of information on us, and adjust and tweak an 'algorith' for displaying content. But its perfectly fine for a US company to do it? Wouldn't the right solution be to protect the citizens from all threats, foreign and domestic?

> But its perfectly fine for a US company to do it? China blocks facebook/twitter/instagram/pinterest/gmail/wikipedia/twitch and even US newspapers. So clearly they don't think it's okay for a US-company to do it (and are at least an order magnitude stricter about it)...

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Re: Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

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Post by horrible-hilde »

zug_zug wrote: post #86
briffle wrote: post #21

Still have no good answer on why its bad for a company that is supposedly under Chineese influence to collect this kind of information on us, and adjust and tweak an 'algorith' for displaying content. But its perfectly fine for a US company to do it? Wouldn't the right solution be to protect the citizens from all threats, foreign and domestic?

> But its perfectly fine for a US company to do it? China blocks facebook/twitter/instagram/pinterest/gmail/wikipedia/twitch and even US newspapers. So clearly they don't think it's okay for a US-company to do it (and are at least an order magnitude stricter about it)...

I agree with this sentiment. tit-for-tat, also anyone who slams into our infrastructure should pay up for the repairs and the inconvenience.

Re: Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

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Post by legitster »

briffle wrote: post #21

Still have no good answer on why its bad for a company that is supposedly under Chineese influence to collect this kind of information on us, and adjust and tweak an 'algorith' for displaying content. But its perfectly fine for a US company to do it? Wouldn't the right solution be to protect the citizens from all threats, foreign and domestic?

> Wouldn't the right solution be to protect the citizens from all threats, foreign and domestic?

Maybe. But there is a huge constitutional distinction between foreign and domestic threats. And the supreme court was pretty clear that the decision would be different if it didn't reside with a "foreign adversary".

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