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Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill (www.bbc.com)

submitted 8 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

How would it be moderated and by whom?

That would be easier to answer if we had a list of companies that can afford to buy it (that's a short list) and also willing to buy it (an even shorter list).

I don’t necessarily think forcing them to sell to another entity will fix the problems

Sure - it obviously depends who buys it. Elon Musk, for example, would probably be a bad steward.

But what about Alphabet? That might not be so bad. As a fan of YouTube, I'd love to see the "shorts" feature killed off and all that content moved to a separate service where I can go the rest of my life without ever seeing a short repeating video.

Whoever buys it, it the US can force TikTok to be sold once, they can do it again if the buyer proves to also be problematic.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The invasion of privacy is bad regardless of who does it though. This bill isn't about protecting consumer privacy. It's about sticking it to the CCP. Alphabet should also be considered a company that needlessly invades the privacy of it's users and laws should be made to protect those users. Just because tik tok is worse doesn't mean any company doing this isn't bad.

I'll also say that YouTube shorts views pay more than tik tok views for established creators, by a significant margin. I would rather creators I enjoy get paid decently. Not that YouTube doesn't have a lot of problems and anti-creator policies of its own. But $.04 per 1K views is a lot worse than $18.00 per 1K views.