Posted on 01/18/2025 7:17:34 PM PST by marcusmaximus
If it’s true that they are using the platform to collect data on Americans it should be banned
I give you Facebook and the FBI/CIA. Fine for them to spy on us more than any regime in all of human history.
Dear title-makers, please review the English language.
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Yes, that’s their story and they’re sticking to it. The truth, though, is that you get that message and can’t do anything else.
However, you can go on Facebook or any other platform Zuckerberg owns. Apparently, there’s no problem with having a monopoly.
“Not too worry, Terrorists are trying to kill Americans. Just give up a little of your GOD given liberty for safety.”
Here is the thing folks are too dense to understand. Our own government and most domestic large Social Media platforms are proxies for the >Foreign< Global entities who have already invaded this country and want to enslave us into One World Order. Taking over and controlling the internet in whole is one of their end goals of their agenda. And we are helping them do this by supporting ANY government control over the internet period.
They are far far more dangerous to our National Security, privacy, culture, and liberty than China is... China is insignificant chump change by comparison... China is not trying to use our internet to completely enslave us...
If we could get TIKTOK totally disconnected from the CCP, that might be acceptable, but in the meantime, I can’t see why anyone should fall apart just because of a social website going off the air. There are others, you know.
Re: 20 - a false equivalence. Regarding Mercedes, Germany has not been designated a foreign adversary. Nor has Japan.
There’s always been government control. Domain registrars that operate in the US are subject to US law. There is only one domain registrar for .edu (EDUCAUSE).
And there will always be government control for law enforcement purposes, which is appropriate.
We’ll have to see what President Trump comes up with...
“And there will always be government control for law enforcement purposes, which is appropriate.”
OK, now here is something I am going to agree with you about to an extremely MINIMAL degree. Absolutely minimal and only under extreme circumstances with massive probable cause and previously gathered evidence that justifies a warrant for “additional evidence”. Absolutely no open warrants or fishing expeditions period. Zero... And no secret access without the knowledge of the domain administration. Meaning no illegal backdoors without a just warrant duly served physically. Inconvenient? Too bad... You want it earn it.
And there are already extremely minimal internet laws in place that cover these very extreme situations. And I am fine with “most” of these because they are common sense no brainers. Like sexual exploitation of minors, this should be prosecuted and domains should help with investigations. But don’t sneak in the backdoor to do it without a duly served warrant. Absolutely no illegal search and seizure. Just ask and any moral domain owner would assist in this matter even without a warrant.
So in no way do I believe Law Enforcement should have complete unfettered access to anything they want any time they want. And no legislation should ever be introduced that would allow this. Domains are legally real property and they are commercial businesses that fall under commercial law. Every protection commercial law affords applies...
Other than that we absolutely do NOT need anymore government control over the internet period.
Yeah, just exactly what ‘sensitive’ information is CCP getting off tictoc?
What I had for lunch?
If you don’t want the CCP (or the US Gov) to know it, don’t post it.
Meanwhile, do businesses using tictoc expose people’s financial and other information?
I am for ‘Freedom Of Speech’ until convinced otherwise.
I don’t use that shite either.
But I do use FR. They probably hack the heck out of this site.
Liz Cheney is reading this right now.
Agreed.
It might be helpful to discuss in detail what people can do to reduce their Internet footprint which can help reduce data being compromised.
“It might be helpful to discuss in detail what people can do to reduce their Internet footprint which can help reduce data being compromised.”
What needs to happen is if we are going to pass any legislation at all, then make it illegal to gather and sell all this data without transparency. As a domain owner and webmaster I am all in for a universal internet privacy law like the EU. Or a law that they cannot sell our data. Or a transparency law that makes sites and apps list all the hidden 3rd party scripts and APIs they are employing. Just like NoScript gives us.
If this was the case then NONE of this TikTok issue would have even happened in the first place. I am sick of being raped by greedy websites and applications with hidden scripts. Ads are one thing, Hidden spy scripts are completely out of bounds without disclosing them. Now if we still use it after they disclose the list then that is on us. But nothing should be hidden.
But this will never happen because the government is the number one customer for all this data. As you know from using NoScript Google is the number one spy service utilized on just about every website. Google is Alphabet, Alphabet is BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street. And they are the One World Order who is stealing our nation and sovereignty from us. It is they who stole Trump’s election and tried to kill him twice. And our government, both left and right are a proxy for these Global Corporations.
If we want to keep our country it is Google who needs to be universally regulated for their underhanded hidden raping of our data. TikTok is extremely insignificant in the true bigger picture.
I mean it is so bad that even so called great tools like this one are compromised.
Blacklight:
“A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector
Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn.”
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
Know owns it? The Markup. Know who owns the Markup? Google/Alphabet. And are they honest about what they find in the scripts you are checking? No... They absolutely hide all government connections. So it is deception and fraud from the get go.
Something does need to be done about this, But it needs to be done universally in the smallest of ways, like simple disclosure and transparency. I am all in for a privacy law. That data is OUR property and it is burglary to steal it and sell it without our knowledge.
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