The House has renewed its push on legislation that would ban TikTok if its Beijing-based parent company doesn’t divest from the popular social media platform.
Instead of banning specific apps, ban the harvest and sale of personal data itself. Then the apps people want to use are still given a chance to exist if they stop mining data.
Yes but it’s splitting hairs… If you ban alcoholic drinks it’s basically the same as banning putting alcohol in drinks. Especially for a conversation between laymen on Lemmy
Instead of banning specific apps, ban the harvest and sale of personal data itself. Then the apps people want to use are still given a chance to exist if they stop mining data.
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No, you said we should ban apps, I said we should have better privacy laws. Two totally different things.
Yes but it’s splitting hairs… If you ban alcoholic drinks it’s basically the same as banning putting alcohol in drinks. Especially for a conversation between laymen on Lemmy
It’s more like we should ban the addition of unsafe additives to alcohol vs banning a specific brand of alcohol, even though most brands add it.