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Senate passes bill forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signature. Biden expected to sign on Wed. (apnews.com)

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I guess the EU should ban Meta and Xitter....

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

Well yeah?

[–] caffinatedone@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Probably, but for other reasons. Neither of those are owned by the US, are they?

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The United States is not an enemy nation to the EU. Nor does the United States own Meta or Xitter.

That being said if EU nations were worried about the NSA collecting information on their citizens and had reason to believe Meta was complicit in that, then they absolutely should ban Meta. I mean they have the GDPR don’t they.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They basically do, as revealed by Snowden documents when the US forced American companies like AT&T, Microsoft, or Google to let them spy on their users. I don't even think Tik Tok stores their user data in China servers, it's in Texas or Virginia or Singapore.

[–] WhatsThePoint@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This was the original compromise, but Byte Dance repeatedly gave access to said servers to engineers with ties to the CCP against the agreement’s stipulations. Byte Dance broke the compromise.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Oh I don't remember seeing that anywhere. You got a link with more info on that?

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Well then yeah maybe the EU should ban them. Thats up to them, but I would totally understand it if they did.

As for TikTok’s user data, it doesn’t matter where it’s geographically stored. ByteDance has unfettered access to the data regardless, which means the CCP has unfettered access to it.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Yes but not for the reasons stated in the post you replied to.