get'em_griz said:
I'm not one to get political or talk politics... but it's not just the Republicans who want to ban TikTok. Say what you want about it, but there are concerns with the platform that even Biden approved a TikTok ban for Federal Government employees. Let's not act like the Republicans are in the wrong when it's being banned at the federal level by the current powers in charge.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tiktok-ban-biden-government-college-state-federal-security-privacy-rcna63724
The Biden administration banned tiktok from government provided phones to protect government data. The state of Montana wants to outlaw ticktok on personal phones. Very Big Difference.
The U.S. has some of the worst data privacy laws in the developed world. Our privacy laws are so bad, the E.U. has fined the platform formerly known as Facebook $1.3 billion for exposing the data of E.U. users to the United States, where the privacy rules are terrible.
Nothing Montana has done will improve data privacy in a meaningful way. There isn't a politician alive who doesn't mine the crap out of your private information just to help him get elected. For example, Data Trust offers Republican clients a data base of 300 million voters with 2,500 data points per voter. There are similar data points for Democratic candidates.
There isn't much of our personal data that hasn't been seen, and sold and sold and sold again.