For Americans:
Apparently the “Ban TikTok” bill has loads of stuff crammed into it that, effectively, gives the government free access to everything you do online. They have access to anything you have connected online, your cloud storage, your transactions, social media, your accounts. They’ll even have access to your Steam Marketplace and your Youtube and Twitch accounts.
The bill also gives the US government the ability to say you’re working with a foreign adversary based on transactions, data sharing, etc. This can apply retroactively.
This means that if the US government labels any nation an adversary, any data sharing or transactions into that country, past, present or future, can be under scrutiny and potentially be used as evidence of aiding a foreign power. The punishment for this can be up to 20 years in prison.
They’re using banning TikTok as a trojan horse to push through other legislation that will curb your freedom and privacy on the internet forever.
It is being called “The Patriot Act” for the internet.
Edit: Source
Meta (Facebook) is also involved. Of course they are.
text ‘tiktok’ to 50409 to sign a petition advocating against the tiktok ban if you feel like doing something about it!
