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Congress is considering giving President Biden unilateral authority to decide which apps Americans can use on their phones on a daily basis. In the name of banning TikTok, the DATA Act (HR 1153) would give the president broad and unquestionable power to ban apps to reward supporters and punish opponents.
The act is a major blow to the freedoms Americans have enjoyed since the first smartphone hit the market.
Since then, social media platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Internet search engines have become the primary gateways for news, political commentary, and entertainment for most Americans. Each of these platforms collects and stores vast amounts of personal information about their users. Most Americans know this and accept it as part of modern life.
The move to ban TikTok is a classic example of a company pushing laws that harm competitors. And most of all, Facebook and its parent company, META, have hypocritically promoted this false narrative. While demonizing and funding a campaign to attack his TikTok rival, META is growing into a hardware company. And to make that change, the company relies, you guessed it, on China.
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According to recent information report“Meta is in big trouble. The social media service wants to turn into a hardware powerhouse, and it does virtually everything in China.”
META responded to these accusations by saying that hardware manufacturing iscomplicated” and can only be done in China.
This is only while META, its investors and a paid political spin-doctor “highlight nationalist concerns over threats from China-owned rival TikTok.”
But TikTok isn’t the only one facing these transparent, empty and hypocritical attacks from Team META.
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Facebook urged senators to step up pressure on Google at a hearing in 2018, and a former official once called Google executives on Twitter. liar Years before overwork in China.
Sound familiar?
This is only while META relies on its expansion in China for its growth in hardware.
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The data law has been drafted so extensively that not only TikTok, but all of these social media and digital platforms, because they do business in or with China, are “otherwise influenced by China.” A plausible argument can be made that
The bill would give President Biden and subsequent presidents overly broad powers to arbitrarily target unjust companies for their own benefit.
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Today’s target is TikTok, mostly used by young people to catch the latest viral videos. However, it is becoming a platform for conservative commentators and influencers who feel that other social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter dramatically limit their audience and shadowfully forbid them from communicating with their followers. .
It’s not hard to imagine President Biden finding himself in a tough spot when he claims his son received a lot of money from China and decides it’s time to be tough on China.
Data law gives Biden power to ban TikTok. Alternatively, the threat of a ban could lead the Biden administration to negotiate with TikTok to change its algorithm and limit the posting of opinions that disagree with his policies.
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Future presidents will also have this power. Imagine if re-elected Donald Trump decided that Facebook and Google were influenced by China and issued an order banning them from American cell phones. Because these companies have significant operations in China, Trump will make a plausible case that he has the power to ban them under the data law.
Americans increasingly use mobile phones to manage all aspects of their lives, from travel to banking to news and entertainment. Banning apps and giving governments the power to choose between competing apps is a major restriction on phone freedom.
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