But banning bad things would require a well-thought-out bill that could inadvertently protect Americans from domestic tech companies that are also harvesting and selling our personal data and manipulating our attention. And that would be a problem (for politicians).
Easier to just blame China and kick the can down the road to the next generation to deal with the real problems.
Honestly, banning Chinese apps in general seems fine to me, given how many Western apps/websites China bans.
Trade is good, but it should be reasonably two-sided.
It's weird to me that in these discussions people mostly ignore how many Western apps/services China bans. Isn't reciprocity entirely reasonable?
Huh... So this is about securing data, buffer overruns, and remote code execution. Seems like kind of small potatoes for Congress to get involved.
Well they do seem to push anti-us {anything} (not that there it isn't anything to complain about if you're a US voter) while simultaneously "hide" or "de-promote" anti-china or anti-eastern content.
They also push more us-crime content while they could push more for buddhist content and make more of a difference but it's obvious it's the CCP behind of it all...
Note that this is coming from someone that didn't grow up in the US and is anti-authoritarian (right or left) as they come... (I grew up in Venezuela, left authoritiaran system).
It's funny how the divestiture law is just 'nationalizing' foreign corporations. Something we shamed cuba, et al about. But I'm okay with it.
No china didn't. That's my point. You and the poster's assertion is an outright propaganda lie that's been repeated ad nauseum. China has the same laws that the EU has and the US has. Where citizens' data is stored and controlled locally. Tiktok is storing american data within the US.
If china enacts similar 'tiktok' laws, then apple, microsoft and every tech company operating in china would have to sell its entire chinese operations to chinese entities.
I hope china, india, EU and the rest of the world takes the tiktok bill as a blueprint and enacts similar laws.
Even TikTok's employees say that is false.
> Video-sharing app says it has walled off American data, but employees say data is still sometimes shared with its China-based parent
https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-pledged-to-protect-u-s-data-...