Montana’s law banning TikTok in the state has been blocked while a legal challenge to the law moves through the courts, a federal judge ruled.
  • capital@lemmy.world
    543·
    2 years ago

    Fuck TikTok but do we really want to set this precident?

    What’s TikTok doing that meta and google aren’t?

    • FireTower@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 years ago

      I think it ultimately boils down the their connection to the CCP, and social media’s general capacity to sway opinions which can be influenced by malicious design, along with the data collection concerns.

      It’s a pretty interesting legal question. I don’t want a world where the government can shut down every social media site, but if we got to a point where foreign companies like TikTok just started blatant progranda campaigns I don’t think they’d last long here.

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
    172·
    2 years ago

    There are, I’m sure, within existing laws, a multitude of reasons to ban TikTok, but, unfortunately, we have a legislature that is far too tech illiterate to craft a law that can ban any social media effectively for reasons which comport to existing laws due totech illiteracy in the current legislature.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      The education system isn’t the problem. It’s the people that keep trying to privatize and dismantle it.