<story><title>Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok</title><url>https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/12/rubio-gallagher-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-ban-tiktok</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Because China is not a good example to follow. It is a dystopian state with full control of what their citizens have access to. Why would you want to have your government to choose the apps for you?</text></item><item><author>philjohn</author><text>US Tech firms products are largely banned in China, closing off a market of 1bn+ - why should Chinese firms have unfettered access to the US?</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Why not regulate how the data is used or stored, like the EU does, but ban?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m really hoping this doesn&amp;#x27;t become a reality because if it does, we will end up with partitioned internet and stagnation.&lt;p&gt;People often forget that the US companies are foreign entity for most of the worlds population and with the WikiLeaks revelations we know for a fact that the US government has access to the data of American tech companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlbertCory</author><text>Ah, it&amp;#x27;s the old slippery-slope argument again.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m fine with banning all apps from countries that require their app-makers to share data with the government. If that requires an international treaty to codify when a company must share data (e.g. only with a criminal warrant), then great, let&amp;#x27;s do that.&lt;p&gt;China would refuse to sign that treaty? Even better.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok</title><url>https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/12/rubio-gallagher-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-ban-tiktok</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Because China is not a good example to follow. It is a dystopian state with full control of what their citizens have access to. Why would you want to have your government to choose the apps for you?</text></item><item><author>philjohn</author><text>US Tech firms products are largely banned in China, closing off a market of 1bn+ - why should Chinese firms have unfettered access to the US?</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Why not regulate how the data is used or stored, like the EU does, but ban?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m really hoping this doesn&amp;#x27;t become a reality because if it does, we will end up with partitioned internet and stagnation.&lt;p&gt;People often forget that the US companies are foreign entity for most of the worlds population and with the WikiLeaks revelations we know for a fact that the US government has access to the data of American tech companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>When you make up 25% of the global population - it&amp;#x27;s pretty hard for companies to compete when 25% of the global market is locked out.&lt;p&gt;The idea that we can allow China to ban all non-Chinese companies and then let Chinese companies &amp;quot;freely compete&amp;quot; with other global companies is insane, and I&amp;#x27;m not sure why it&amp;#x27;s been going on for 30 years.&lt;p&gt;I guess because China was starting from so far behind that it took 20+ years for any Chinese companies to get to a point they are literal threats to western companies.&lt;p&gt;If we follow down this path of allowing China to gate access to 25% of the world and having our companies compete with theirs - there will mostly only be Chinese companies left...&lt;p&gt;That sounds infinitely more dystopian to me.</text></comment>