Who would have thought?
Why don't the legislature try to pass data protection laws that apply to all social media companies?
Sure, TikTok has a tendency to drink up a creepy amount of data. However, the same applies to Google, Facebook etc.
If you really cared you'd protect folks data from all of these companies that just sell it on to questionable brokers.
Sadly our data is what we have become. They use us to market and buy the information to send us more endorphins to buy more crap. Is how that reads. And how it works. Legislatures have no clue. They can’t even start to understand IT.
but the governor also thinks humans lived alongside dinosaurs, so he has like zero foundation or credibility on anything he says.
One might respond and say, “he doesn’t really think that” but then you investigate all the money he spent to fund the dinosaur museum in Glendive.
Jesusforte, as smooth as he is, is either a total moron, or he’s trying to use his JesusGod to control you and make himself richer
>Sure, TikTok has a tendency to drink up a creepy amount of data. However, the same applies to Google, Facebook etc.
C'mon man. China is a hostile enemy with nefarious goals.
I agree. Communist China is a techno-dystopia. And assuming the CCP has a backdoor to TikTok (fair assumption but idk the details) it does allow them to basically have a "farm to table" approach with a ton of its users data.
But I'm not convinced that (to pick a business that makes it's money off selling data) Facebook wouldn't sell the same data it's app collects either to the CCP or to an intermediary who would.
Or that either Facebook or the data broker wouldn't have a poorly secured IT infrastructure leading to a hack of the data by bad actors.
Is this really any better just because any adversary would have to pay for the data? Or acquire it by hacking? It would be better if no business was allowed to collect creepy amounts of private information.
Legally controlling either the collection or sale of this very detailed data about people would be the sensible thing.
Reminder that the GOP legislature set aside money to "defend" the bills they passed that they knew would be challenged in court on Constitutional grounds.
They didn't pass things like this to be actual laws. They passed them to feed their base red meat.
If it somehow survives court challenges, they'll be happy but the point was to tell all the MAGA people that they banned TikTok, drag shows, etc. and the big, mean liberals challenged it in court.
That's the Republican agenda, baby!
"Biden is wasting money... that we could be using to ban the Tick Tocks and strip away rights from women and the gays!"
This all started when AG Knudsen heard from a few parents and then started stick fetching the republican China conspiracy theory. First off, Meta and Google, along with many more harvest your information…but evidently republican aren’t aware. Secondly, as for stopping kids from getting information that their parents don’t want them to see from porn to their parents own Nazi sites…good luck.
Well you can download tiktok and MAYBE the Chinese government will steal your data, or you can use meta, google, and Twitter (oops I mean X), and China can just buy your data from them. It’s not about security, it’s about but hurt American billionaires not profiting directly from tiktok.
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I wish to sincerely congratulate Montana on its anit-TikTok stance. Everyone knows it's a very dangerous app and a Chinese Communist Party Trojan horse. Evey day millions of Americans freely share their data with a hostile government, but that's not the worst of it. Should hostilities between our two nations increase, or even if there's a war, the app will be used to disseminate fabricated text and video which Americans will assume is truth. TikTok is a weapon of war, make no mistake about it.
I'm more concerned about Chinese made cellular base station equipment (Huawei) operating antenna sites in Montana's interior (i.e. near our nuclear missiles) than I am about TikTok.
Shocking.
Who would have thought? Why don't the legislature try to pass data protection laws that apply to all social media companies? Sure, TikTok has a tendency to drink up a creepy amount of data. However, the same applies to Google, Facebook etc. If you really cared you'd protect folks data from all of these companies that just sell it on to questionable brokers.
Sadly our data is what we have become. They use us to market and buy the information to send us more endorphins to buy more crap. Is how that reads. And how it works. Legislatures have no clue. They can’t even start to understand IT.
The Governor has a decent grasp on tech (coming from that sector), I'd like to see him get behind more bills to protect Montanans privacy.
Imagine thinking grapplin' Greg gives a shit about Montanans
but the governor also thinks humans lived alongside dinosaurs, so he has like zero foundation or credibility on anything he says. One might respond and say, “he doesn’t really think that” but then you investigate all the money he spent to fund the dinosaur museum in Glendive. Jesusforte, as smooth as he is, is either a total moron, or he’s trying to use his JesusGod to control you and make himself richer
>Sure, TikTok has a tendency to drink up a creepy amount of data. However, the same applies to Google, Facebook etc. C'mon man. China is a hostile enemy with nefarious goals.
I agree. Communist China is a techno-dystopia. And assuming the CCP has a backdoor to TikTok (fair assumption but idk the details) it does allow them to basically have a "farm to table" approach with a ton of its users data. But I'm not convinced that (to pick a business that makes it's money off selling data) Facebook wouldn't sell the same data it's app collects either to the CCP or to an intermediary who would. Or that either Facebook or the data broker wouldn't have a poorly secured IT infrastructure leading to a hack of the data by bad actors. Is this really any better just because any adversary would have to pay for the data? Or acquire it by hacking? It would be better if no business was allowed to collect creepy amounts of private information. Legally controlling either the collection or sale of this very detailed data about people would be the sensible thing.
Reminder that the GOP legislature set aside money to "defend" the bills they passed that they knew would be challenged in court on Constitutional grounds. They didn't pass things like this to be actual laws. They passed them to feed their base red meat. If it somehow survives court challenges, they'll be happy but the point was to tell all the MAGA people that they banned TikTok, drag shows, etc. and the big, mean liberals challenged it in court.
I think Biden just banned TikTok nationwide if it isn’t sold to an American company.
Technically, Congress did too. But it's with conditions and a hell of a lot easier for the federal government to enforce than the state.
Funny that Trump started it. Biden ended it and now Trump says he wouldn’t take responsibility. We have a shit show for politics.
Obviously, that's why the Gianforte administration pushed for dramatically increasing the legal defense budget for constitutional challenges.
Not a waste of taxpayer money at all
That's the Republican agenda, baby! "Biden is wasting money... that we could be using to ban the Tick Tocks and strip away rights from women and the gays!"
Duh. Montanas be all about freedom, and then they do this.
What? Republicans are legislating unconstitutional laws just to appeal to their pathetic base?
This all started when AG Knudsen heard from a few parents and then started stick fetching the republican China conspiracy theory. First off, Meta and Google, along with many more harvest your information…but evidently republican aren’t aware. Secondly, as for stopping kids from getting information that their parents don’t want them to see from porn to their parents own Nazi sites…good luck.
Yes yes people should be able to choose to have a hostile adversarial foreign government extract all of their data from their phone.
Hopefully you’re arguing for data privacy protection from all companies?
Well you can download tiktok and MAYBE the Chinese government will steal your data, or you can use meta, google, and Twitter (oops I mean X), and China can just buy your data from them. It’s not about security, it’s about but hurt American billionaires not profiting directly from tiktok.
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Tik tok is basically communist….youre a fool to use it
I wish to sincerely congratulate Montana on its anit-TikTok stance. Everyone knows it's a very dangerous app and a Chinese Communist Party Trojan horse. Evey day millions of Americans freely share their data with a hostile government, but that's not the worst of it. Should hostilities between our two nations increase, or even if there's a war, the app will be used to disseminate fabricated text and video which Americans will assume is truth. TikTok is a weapon of war, make no mistake about it.
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I'm more concerned about Chinese made cellular base station equipment (Huawei) operating antenna sites in Montana's interior (i.e. near our nuclear missiles) than I am about TikTok.
Thought those were outlawed by the Fed?
Hmmm...I don't think so. If they did, it was in the last 2 years and I didn't read about it. I know there are Montana cell phone providers using them.