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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

TikTok are not competition, they don't even care about profit or they would have sold 80% of ownership and would continue operating legally.

They're a weapon

[–] filister@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The same can be said for Meta and X. They even stopped moderating them. So why shall we ban TikTok and allow Meta and X to continue working? I am up for greater scrutiny of social media, but one that's applied equally across all platforms.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

When Meta sold data to Russia via Cambridge Analytica they recieved the largest FTC fine in history, and that was long before the law was even conceived.

If the platforms did it today then they should face the full consequences the same as TikTok.