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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2024
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Agreed that "data privacy" is mostly an excuse in this case. The main reason is "(control over) mindless app addiction", which TikTok has perfected way better than other platforms.
Actual "data privacy" and "platform addiction", would be much better targets to address (the EU seems to be going in that direction), but obviously none of the other data-selling addictive platforms want the US to also ding them for that.