Earlier in May of this year, I blogged blogged two posts leading to two different articles we had spotted about the banning of Montanans ability to use a platform that while questionable would be hard to enforce.
My main concern would be the question of enforcement.
While we have expressed our views on TikTok in a number of cases,
the fact is, we don’t have a full way of banning it by state.
I would love the U.S. to ban TikTok so nobody can use it. The fact they don’t have a care about our privacy and they track everything proves it enough. Our latest blog post when you click on the search page of our coverage of TikTok talks about the Jewish people and how they don’t care what content is portrayed on it.
I think a lawsuit might work, but we’ve never seen anything about it since its article. I believe we have two lawsuits. One in Indiana, and one in Utah.
As we’ve covered, they have shared more data than any other social media site but lawmakers just don’t understand that while it is a problem, there isn’t really a good solution.
We know that there are opinion pieces too within the search. One says that TikTok didn’t make a case for itself.
The other which was very interesting talked about how we can probably fix the TikTok problem.
Michael in Tennessee, who may be on a future Tech podcast talking about TSB items and other things in the future, sent this update on how it will stay in Monana for now. While articles covered the fact that Government employees can’t use it on government phones, it isn’t a complete ban. But I do know that other countries have banned it and I wonder how it goes for those countries?
A federal judge has stopped a US state’s landmark ban on TikTok from going into effect, in an important test case for the widespread political backlash that has grown in the country against the Chinese-owned video-sharing app.
The article says:
To win a preliminary injunction, the plaintiff must show that its case has an overall likelihood of success. The judge concluded that TikTok had done so.
Apparently, TikTok did enough to win in this case, but again my main question would be how to enforce such a ban.
It continues: The judge concluded that the bill was not “narrowly tailored” enough, effectively amounting to overreach by the legislature, which must justify such measures on the grounds of an important governmental interest.
“First, the law’s foreign policy purpose is not an important Montana state interest.” And another state law already shields the protection of children online, he noted.
“SB 419 completely bans TikTok in Montana. It does not limit the application in a targeted way with the purpose of attacking the perceived Chinese problem.”
While I can agree with this, we must come to some agreement on how to reign TikTok in with their bad practices. I know that I’m not going to use the app, all of my staff that assist in podcasts or read the blog won’t use it as far as I know, but I won’t stop them if they chose to use it as it is just an application.
To read the full piece, please read Montana’s TikTok ban blocked by federal judge and i hope we can discuss what might happen next in next steps.
I understand why we need to reign in this company, but I don’t think the bans are going to work, they need to be told what they can and can’t do with our data.
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