Hello folks,
On this blog and other places on the internet, it is documented that TikTok has some concerns that are well known in the industry including but not limited to a keylogger and the fact that it collects a whole shit load of information it does not need to provide services.
TikTok and ByteDance say the law “would allow the government to decide that a company may no longer own and publish the innovative and unique speech platform it created. If Congress can do this, it can circumvent the First Amendment by invoking national security and ordering the publisher of any individual newspaper or website to sell to avoid being shut down.”
So what gives, the fact you can get away with doing what you want in regards to logging everything on a phone and turning that over to your government if you are told to do so?
Most of the 170 million people still do not know the dangers of what the app has and if it is told too, we will have all our data sent to China with no recourse.
The article continues:
“By banning all online platforms and software applications offered by ‘TikTok’ and all ByteDance subsidiaries, Congress has made a law curtailing massive amounts of protected speech,” the lawsuit said. “Unlike broadcast television and radio stations, which require government licenses to operate because they use the public airwaves, the government cannot, consistent with the First Amendment, dictate the ownership of newspapers, websites, online platforms, and other privately created speech forums.”
ByteDance ordered to sell within 270 days
This is not fucking protected speech when your stupid fucking app collects every god damn thing on a device you want because the people can put out videos and hurt a shitload of people.
The same divestiture-or-sale requirement could apply to other applications subsequently designated as being controlled by foreign adversaries, but only TikTok and ByteDance are named in the bill. Law professors who spoke to Ars last month correctly predicted that TikTok and ByteDance would raise objections under the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, and the prohibition on bills of attainder.
What they forget here is that other apps don’t do the shit that we know that TikTok does.
For a complete reading of this, the article is titled TikTok and its Chinese owner sue US government over “foreign adversary” law and we’ll have to see what happens.