It's why Walmart and Amazon were the biggest corporate supporters of raising minimum wage and getting stricter on Internet sales tax.
They get an insane amounts of data requests from governments on a daily basis.
It's not clear to me this is worse than not being under state control.
I mean - our government sucks - but it is our government. Law and order is nice. Ideally the laws wouldn't be terrible.
It shouldn't be up to companies to make their own rules - even if our government sucks.
They will aim to eliminate tiktok as, everyone in the us higher ups agree it has to go, but who will be next afterwards? If in the future, Facebook doesn’t bend its knee to shovel out state propaganda, will it too go?
The very scary part of the bill, if true, is the outright banning of VPNs.
As a Finn, I’m not too worried about myself right now, but should USA fall into a complete Surveillance State with monitoring and it’s own version of China’s Social Credit system, it will have huge ramifications on EU and probably my country Finland.