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Yeah, I don't know why you're getting down voted. China is known to commit kidnappings and assassinations of Chinese ethnicity in the United States. I don't doubt they use this data

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Facebook should be banned for the same reason. They betrayed Americans, used them… deceived them, programmed them.

Oh boy… lump all foreigners in and you’re going to start fracturing American internet companies global hold

Whether it's publicly traded or not is irrelevant. US businesses can be banned from doing business with TikTok/ByteDance and thus forced to delist the app from app stores.

This is what happened to Huawei and ZTE, and it's why Huawei phones can't use Google Play Services.

It’s not just about having data but the ability to prorrogarte the data being shown by their apps. Between Facebook and Twitter, TikTok can be manipulated into echo chambers to divide our country even more than the Russians have in the past.

Delist from where? Tiktok is not publicly traded. They can ban it if the US thinks they are doing something bad, like being used by a foreign power to get data on its citizens. Hence, the whole purpose of this bill.

Also, just because they might follow the law like GDPR, it doesn't mean that they can't break it at a moments notice if the CCP demands it since they have to by Chinese law.

I get your point, and I agree that we need better privacy laws, but that's a completely different issue from what this bill is trying to do.

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GDPR is taught in every American country doing overseas business as part of their data protection knowledge even though the US doesn’t have the same standard. If someone could differentiate the difference in TikTok feed algorithm between every country beside China you would see a difference on what gets shown. It’s weird we even have TikTok in the US.

> Do you think that a Chinese company would respect any privacy law that the US government passes?

By definition, the company would have to follow the law or it would simply be delisted. The US is no stranger to delisting foreign companies for illegal activity.

It is also easy to verify whether these companies are following the law, at least with regards to CCPA or GDPR.

Lol they're going to become what they deride China for being, with a weird little closed off USA internet

This is not a question of privacy but a question of foreign power having access to that data. Do you think that a Chinese company would respect any privacy law that the US government passes?

There is no moral government snooping on users, whether from China or the NSA. This wouldn't have to be a choice if people in this country actually cared to defend their rights in court.

Can we get a ban on US companies with concerning data collection?

More gaslighting and personal attacks to support your argument? At this point troll, I will not be commenting to you, you are welcome to have the last word

And you have children. Yikes. Reproducing with those critical thinking skills? Bit of a mistake, don't ya think?

I understand banning it from being inside government buildings, but I'm not for banning it entirely. Not unless you finally want to regulate the data collection market in general.