<story><title>Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who</title><url>https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-stop-the-tiktok-ban</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>readams</author><text>Spying and data collection isn&amp;#x27;t remotely the main concern.  The main concern is control over how Americans consume information.&lt;p&gt;See e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;networkcontagion.us&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;networkcontagion.us&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;A-Tik-Tok-ing...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The conclusions of our research are clear: Whether content is promoted or muted onTikTok
appears to depend on whether it is aligned or opposed to the interests of the Chinese
Government. As the summary data graph below illustrates, the percentages of TikTok posts out
of Instagram posts are consistently range-bound for general political and pop-culture topics, but
completely out-of-bounds for topics sensitive to the Chinese Government.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not even theoretical. This is happening now.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who</title><url>https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-stop-the-tiktok-ban</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vundercind</author><text>DO ban TikTok (and by “ban” we evidently mean “force a change in ownership of”). China imposes ownership restrictions when our companies do business there. We should do the same.&lt;p&gt;ALSO please do outlaw private dragnet spying no matter which company is doing it, yes.</text></comment>