CBS news is effectively state media after the Ellison acquisition and Weiss hire. TikTok's US operation won't be any different and rolling HBO/Time Warner/CNN et al into this will be even worse.
For anyone confused, this only affects US users who's data is now handled by the new US entity.
Tiktok became a bigger national security risk after being sold than it was before.
Is there any way to use the international version of TikTok in the US?
But that's fine, right?
Because TikTok in the US is run by an American company now, right?
It was only a problem when TikTok was owned by a Chinese company, right?
Right?
Remember when part of the argument to force a TikTok sale was protecting American's private data? Honestly, if I had to hand my personal data over to someone, I much rather give it to the nebulous "China" that people always fearmonger about than an American billionaire aligned with the current administration because the latter is much more likely to have avenues to use that data against me.
„Hey, while we have the data - why not pipe it directly to ICE? Palantir might use it as well.“
All for the sake of "security & safety", I‘d assume.
How much more data is even left to collect lol
Everything that would assist a Kavanaugh Stop
Well, precise location data for one.
we’ve had this for decade+