You might be right, but...
If TikTok is a national sovereignty issue for the US, should a lot of other countries similarly be banning US tech companies?
(Since even GDPR only scratches the surface of the power they're handing over.)
If TikTok is a national sovereignty issue for the US, should a lot of other countries similarly be banning US tech companies?
(Since even GDPR only scratches the surface of the power they're handing over.)
China already does for reasons similar to those that are in this bill.
Maybe technology is getting to a point where that needs to happen.
The US economy is drastically larger than the EU economy at this point (soon to be double the size), we control the global reserve currency, and provide a very large military shield across the EU (currently keeping Russia from attacking numerous smaller European nations). The US can do a lot more damage to Europe than the other way around, if it's conflict that Europe seeks with the US (whether economic or military). The same is true with US allies in Asia (particularly Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia).
All the US has to do is look the other way and Russia and China will get to work destroying the status quo, which includes ripping apart Europe and Asia. The US can feed Asia to China anytime it wants to, that includes Australia + New Zealand; it obviously doesn't want to do that. I think US allies want to keep the US an ally for all the right reasons, both economically and militarily.
Not only should they, but they do.
As a result, it is more beneficial to ban specific applications and allow US companies collect as much data as possible.
Rules for thee but not for me.
NATO, Five Eyes, and close allies like Japan need not bother. Russia, China, Iran, and a few others should, and mostly do.
I thought TikTok’s CEO did a great job in the hearing defending themselves, but ByteDance ultimately owns them. We compel companies to provide data silently through court orders all the time in the U.S. and to think China isn’t capable of accessing whatever data they want, at any time, assumes major incompetence of their intelligence services.
I think it comes down to this line of thought.
China can, so they will, because when we can, we do. China no doubt knows many of our non-public exploits, as we do of theirs.
In a real way, this forced sale is a sign of respect.
Sure, if there's evidence of the US exerting its influence over the content in a way that's harmful to the country.