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This is despite the fact that it has been well-established law for almost 60 years that U.S. people have a First Amendment right to receive foreign propaganda.
The law limits liability to intermediaries—entities that “provide services to distribute, maintain, or update” TikTok by means of a marketplace, or that provide internet hosting services to enable the app’s distribution, maintenance, or updating. The law also makes intermediaries responsible for its implementation.
The law explicitly denies to the Attorney General the authority to enforce it against an individual user of a foreign adversary controlled application, so users themselves cannot be held liable for continuing to use the application, if they can access it.
Enacting this legislation has undermined this long standing, democratic principle. It has also undermined the U.S. government’s moral authority to call out other nations for when they shut down internet access or ban social media apps and other online communications tools.
Our lawmakers should work to protect data privacy, but this was the wrong approach. They should prevent any company—regardless of where it is based—from collecting massive amounts of our detailed personal data, which is then made available to data brokers, U.S. government agencies, and even foreign adversaries.
Thoughts?
Hardware is not an app and executive orders are not laws that affect everyone in the US.
You really don’t understand any of the context around this, do you?
Oh you read all of that in five minutes, did you?
You seriously think tick-tock is the only app to ever be banned? Are you in middle school or something?
You couldn’t? It’s a couple of tables.
Again, you aren’t seeing the context of the problem and the entire scope of what is going on. It’s the nature of the software that is in question and what it does for the end user. (The last time I checked, Kaspersky didn’t make communications software.)
This discussion is pointless. Goodbye.
The context is it’s a piece of software owned by another government that isn’t an ally. That has a history of spying on any and everything it can.