The hashtag #BanTikTok has started to gain momentum in the #Philippines because of the recent muting/silencing of a renowned journalist's coverage of the West Philippine Sea issue. Which in turn also revealed that a music video / campaign of a local celebrity regarding WPS was also muted earlier.
Hopefully, this is the spark we are waiting for to get this Communist China-controlled service banned in the country.
Unfortunately, one user shared a photo of a news report on how the DICT (Department of Information and Communications Technology) said that we should be careful with banning apps as these are simply technologies, and small businesses are using it.
> ANC: The DICT asserts it needs to be careful in supporting a ban on social media apps, esp. since they benefit small businesses.
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> DICT: Let's not single out a particular app. This is just tech. There are evils in it, but there are also good things in it.
It was a poor attempt to deflect the question. Why? The topic was not about the technology, it was about banning [highly questionable] social media apps. There is a huge difference between technologies and services.
The public is not asking to ban the technologies behind “short form videos”. The people of the Philippines are demanding to ban a service.
The Biden administration reportedly rejected an offer from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance in 2022, that would have given it extraordinary influence over the world’s most popular app.
The proposal would have allowed federal officials to pick TikTok’s U.S. operation’s board of directors, given the government veto power over each new hire and seen TikTok pay an American company that contracts with the Defense Department to monitor its source code.
It even offered to give federal officials a “kill switch” that would shut the app down in the United States, if it was determined to be a threat. So why was it declined? The Washington Post has more (may require subscription).
Abgesehen davon, dass ich TikTok nicht mag weil ich deren Zweck nicht einsehe, nutzen es sehr viele und vor allem sehr junge Menschen und dies auch kommerziell. Wie eben YouTube & Co. und eigentlich nicht viel anders aber auch als politische Propaganda eine Konkurenz zusätzlich.
🧵 …nun ja, dies war nur eine Frage der Zeit. Es war mehr als vorhersehbar, dass TikTok sich wehrt um den Markt abzugeben und dabei zu verlieren. Meine Meinung und Kritik diesbezüglich, siehst du in den Toots oben.
»Netzpolitik: Tiktok-Mutter Bytedance will mit Klage drohendes US-Verbot abwenden.
Geforderter Verkauf "weder kommerziell, noch technologisch, noch rechtlich" möglich.«
🧵 …deswegen macht es TikTok in der USA nicht besser oder gar sicherer. Es bleibt auch wenn verändert, keine wahre Kommunikation, sondern plumpe Propaganda vorallem an Kindern und Jugendlichen (siehe oben).
»Netzpolitik – TikTok bereitet US-Kopie von Algorithmus vor:
Mögliches Verbot des Video-Service in den USA zwingt den chinesischen Mutterkonzern Bytedance erfinderisch zu werden«
After failing to stop a bill that could ban it in the U.S., TikTok now faces two big hurdles — the U.S. judicial system and the Chinese government, reports @theverge
While ByteDance has promised to fight the ruling, which requires it to divest the app within a year, it won’t be an easy fight, with experts unsure how keen judges will be to weigh in on decisions of national security importance. If it fails, it will have to consider selling TikTok. But that’s not a decision it will be able to make alone — it’ll need the Chinese government’s permission.
I think it's very telling the #US gov't added a way for TikTok/#ByteDance to weasel out of the ban if they decide to sell. Yeah, as if!
But OK. Assuming their "plan" works and #TikTok is sold. Now what?
Would they turn TikTok into a #privacy-respecting #FreeSoftware, fixing all the issues they like to complain about? Or would it just remain the same shitty #proprietary app with the only difference being your data is collected by a different country?
TikTok CEO #ShouZiChew has said the company will take the fight against the new law to the courts, but some experts believe that for the #US#SupremeCourt, national security considerations could outweigh #FreeSpeech protection.
USA: Wie geht es nach dem TikTok-Ultimatum weiter?
Verkauf oder faktisches Verbot: Mit dem vom US-Kongress gesetzten Ultimatum eskaliert der Streit um TikTok in den USA. Was folgt aus der überparteilichen Initiative - und wie realistisch ist, dass TikTok in den USA verkauft wird?
‘#TikTok is gearing up for a long legal battle to fight legislation in the US that threatens to ban the app in its largest market if its Chinese owner #ByteDance refuses to sell the viral video platform.’ https://on.ft.com/49M1i8K
House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid bill
The House on Saturday passed legislation that could trigger a nationwide ban of TikTok.
It would mark the first time ever the U.S. government has passed a law that could shut down an entire social media platform, setting the stage for what is expected to be a protracted legal battle.
The bill that could ban TikTok in the US looks set to be fast-tracked in Congress, with its inclusion in a package of foreign aid bills.
A similar bill already passed the House in a lopsided, bipartisan 352-65 vote in March, but as @NBC reports, it has since been stalled in the Senate.
Now, the House plans to package a slightly revised TikTok bill with billions in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, making it somewhat harder to ignore, and all but guaranteeing the potential ban will be signed into law.
The interesting thing about the EU's Digital Markets Act is that it's "we're just going to treat all the biggest American tech companies as monopolies" as a law. It's both unprecedented and amazing that the Biden administration sleepwalked into it.
This is like the EU's version of the TikTok divestment law but killing multiple birds with one stone.
The #Chinese counterparts are insignificant abroad, except for #ByteDance, #TikTok's parent company.
Given that #Germany's #SAP has a 99% global market penetration rate* in #ERP system of international companies, it would need to be counted in as well, if it weren't in the #B2B market only.
The same is true for the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
In a blockbuster vote earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives easily passed a bill that would force TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell or the app would be banned in the United States. @theverge explores how the revived bill “jumped suddenly from the pile of forgotten ideas.” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), who authored the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, told reporters “The fact that we didn’t leak the content of those negotiations to the media, it’s just a function of how serious our members were.” https://flip.it/xzzXQi #Tech#Technology#TikTok#ByteDance#USPolitics