Banning social media is not good and it’s something China would do. What we need is better education. If people want to give up all their data then let them do it, but they need to be informed about it.
Banning social media is not good and it’s something China would do. What we need is better education. If people want to give up all their data then let them do it, but they need to be informed about it.
Can you read your own sentence again?
I’ll paraphrase a bit: “But they don’t need to steal that if they can just buy it”
Are you sure there is no incentive to steal the data instead of buying it? It saves money and so far no one seems to take them to court on “stealing data” since its likely in their TOS and a legal grey zone. So why waste money if you can get it for free?
Yes, I can. Even if they’re banned, they can easily get it. Buying that data isn’t exactly an insurmountable amount of money for a state actor. A couple tens of millions? Piece of cake. And also, they’re doing the same stuff everyone else is doing. So if we ban tiktoc guess we gotta ban Facebook, Twitter, etc… to keep the CCP’s hands off the data. And your point about TOS is a good one. Technically they’re not stealing it, hence the quotations. So yes, a ban is pointless. Especially if the argument is data security.