They aren’t defending TikTok so much as calling the bluff. The US govt doesn’t actually give a rats ass about privacy or data collection. Some relics in Congress were convinced its a national security threat and needs to be banned OR SOLD TO A US BASED BUYER (I’m personally thinking this is the Muskrat’s doing, but that’s all conspiracy) to preserve national security.
A massive, comprehensive data privacy law would’ve covered the TikTok base and any software by any other threat. Home run, Grand slam, easy win and easy points.
Of course it’s not going that way because it was never about national security.
They aren’t defending TikTok so much as calling the bluff. The US govt doesn’t actually give a rats ass about privacy or data collection. Some relics in Congress were convinced its a national security threat and needs to be banned OR SOLD TO A US BASED BUYER (I’m personally thinking this is the Muskrat’s doing, but that’s all conspiracy) to preserve national security.
A massive, comprehensive data privacy law would’ve covered the TikTok base and any software by any other threat. Home run, Grand slam, easy win and easy points.
Of course it’s not going that way because it was never about national security.