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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it
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There is an "iffy" part in the aid to Ukraine, in the sense that Zelenskiy said it's going to be destined to finance German firms building munition producing facilities in Ukraine... so it's somewhat hard to tell who exactly is benefitting from it... but that's more of an "iffy as business as usual" rather than "particularly iffy".
That's on purpose, and in part caused by the fact that countries have the last say on what their residents are allowed to do. Like, you can't have a private corporation in China without the CCP controlling most of it, or forcing you to save all data on datacenters controlled by... corporations controlled by the CCP.
Most totalitarian countries work like that, doesn't really matter whether a certain resident is against the regime and making an app to let people get slightly freer from it.
Oh for sure I know the vague nature was 100% on purpose, but it doesn't mean the bill is good or that is what I want to see from my government. Data privacy protections for citizens regardless of which country controls an app would have been more effective. Instead, our own homegrown unethical social media companies still get to hoard and sell our data. But of course that is useful to the US government, so...
Yeah... the bill is probably as much of an agreement as they could reach.
For contrast, the EU has tackled "data privacy" directly through the GDPR, and has plans to tackle "addiction" in upcoming legislation. That has lead, just this week, to TikTok withdrawing monetization features from TikTok... Lite, I think?... from all across the EU, pretty much because they're risking fines of "up to 5% worldwide gross revenue", which is turning out to be a nice stick that's keeping even large corporations proactive about following these laws.
Yup! I am pretty familiar with GDPR thanks to working for a company that had to comply with it.