TikTok’s Very Bad Day: China’s biggest honeypot comes to Washington
A lot of well-justified negative attention trained on TikTok during a recent Congressional hearing–but how did the TikTok honeypot get so big?
A lot of well-justified negative attention trained on TikTok during a recent Congressional hearing–but how did the TikTok honeypot get so big?
Georgia, Idaho and New Hampshire have banned TikTok on government devices. These states join Alabama, Florida, North Dakota, Indiana, Iowa, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Maryland. Georgia has also banned WeChat and Telegram (WeChat being a product from Spotify partner TenCent): Idaho just banned TikTok. And New Hampshire implemented a more extensive ban on […]
Emily Baker White warns of the harms from TIkTok we identified 2 years ago coming home to roost. @ebakerwhite: TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens — Artist Rights Watch–News for the Artist Rights Advocacy Community Well, here it is. Two years ago we warned everyone who […]
Google outspends most countries when it comes to lobbying the U.S. government.
As MTP readers will recall, I prefer to think of Big Tech’s various safe harbors like the CDA, DMCA and now the MMA as an income transfer. It’s not that the money isn’t getting made, it’s just not getting made by the people who created the value. For example, when Google profits from selling ads […]
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