This is so confusing.

All I did was share a news article about Musk and Tiktok and then say your dismissal of data privacy as a non-issue is untrue.

And now you’ve strawmanned me to say data privacy issues are unique to tiktok and that I’m in favour of the ban. I never said either of those things. Go find someone else to argue with.

sell your data nonsense.

you have to be extremely oblivious to ignore that or claim it’s a “boomer” issue. It affects everyone.

Huh?

You’re going to 100% trust what tiktok says? Tiktok also says they are independent from China and don’t sell your data.

Twitter also denied reports Musk was offering to buy them before it became public.

According to Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal

Be the change you want to see (ie. make it :))

Yeah she’s great.

Its open source. It can’t be deleted.

Yes, big companies have lobbying which makes rules basically horrible for small companies.

The Megacorps don’t mind “red tape” because all they have to do is hire a lawyer and bribe the right people but small companies suffer the actual consequences.

Ie. In the country I live in, if I want to sell chicken eggs from my backyard chickens, I need to submit 3 forms that are basically impossible to without hiring a lawyer every YEAR, and pay for an inspection check every 2 years which costs a lot. That kind of environment which applies to basically any action a company wants to do makes it impossible for anyone but mid-large companies to do things.

If the law was well made, it wouldn’t applly to websites under a certain threshold of active users.

I mean you can’t expect octopusforums.co with 40 cephalopod enthusiasts to ID check australians can you.

I think a mastodon instance started asking aussies to send a pic of them with a bottle of vodka or a pack of smokes.

Ah just like dear Winnie The Pooh, who we swear is a good communist, and China is the greatest egalitarian state.

(Ignore our billionaires and Uyghur genocide)

@shadow@lemmy.ca

potential bot account. Probably best to check?

Weird that the news has been making a fit about it then. Maybe they just want cheap clicks on the China Virus COVID clickbait.

Instagram is like 15 different things at once.

Its a messaging service with a TikTok like video service and a pixelfed like photo sharing service.

The TikTok ban law also applies to other apps owned by TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance, like Lemon8. ByteDance could be betting that regulators and app store companies are so focused on TikTok that they won’t pay attention to its other apps

If this actually happens it’ll be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

ah

Nah, mostly ethnonationalism and imperialism

Trying to find

Yes. As much as the EU has done a good job in many ways, I’d much prefer it stay a confederation than a federation.

She can share a cell with Sarkozy