US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps

[Polly Ranton]

The fight to keep TikTok operating unchanged in the US reached an appeals court Monday, where TikTok and US-based creators teamed up to defend one of the world's most popular apps from a potential US ban.

TikTok lawyer Andrew Pincus kicked things off by warning a three-judge panel that a law targeting foreign adversaries that requires TikTok to divest from its allegedly China-controlled owner, ByteDance, is "unprecedented" and could have "staggering" effects on "the speech of 170 million Americans."

What do you think? 

[Stanryder]

I have some serious app burnout these days.

Everyone wants you to use an app for everything.

Everyone expects you to have the newest mobile device for their app.

Ironically, traditional text and phone services are inundated with spam.

The spam is assisted, in part, by all the outrageous data harvesting done by the above apps.

I seriously just want to throw my phone off of a cliff, or chuck it in a microwave. Jokes on me though, because my employer expects me to look at Outlook notifications.

[Daniel Red]

Can we create rigorous standards that protect US consumers and financial interests (taxing appropriately, not protectionism for amazon and walmart) and kick foreign interests that are hardly our friends out of US operations unless those standards are met, please? Foreign companies have been buying up our housing, food manufacturing, water, and tech infrastructure (i.e. our private data). Cheap plastic crap is almost the least of our worries (though yes, ban them too).

[Grant Anderson]

Hot take but the backlash against TikTok is just fear mongering. I don’t give a shit if China knows what bullshit I’m interested in. It’s not any more dangerous to me than the stuff that American companies know about me