Forcing a Chinese company to sell TikTok won’t solve the biggest problem with #TikTok: the fact that so people get their “#news” from platforms that are designed to hijack attention for commercial gain, not to deliver reliable information.
If China wants information on Americans, they can buy it from companies since there are no effective #privacy laws.
And American-owned Facebook and X have shown themselves to be as bad or worse as TikTok at spreading #misinformation.
@TheConversationUS Federal politicians will not, and *cannot* fix “the biggest problem with #TikTok “ (that it is a primary source of ‘#news ‘ for millions of #Americans ).
That’s because the ‘problem’ is lack of #CriticalThinking skills. So only fixing our failing #Education system can do that!
State politicians need to support, instead of degrade #PublicEducation. And #HigherEducation ‘leaders’ need to make #teacher preparation programs more competitive and of higher quality.
@ChemicalEyeGuy @TheConversationUS What's about banning suggestion algorhithms for all those companies (a-social media as well as Amazon & Co). That destroys their dangerous (in terms of political influence) business model, makes it unprofitable for them. Good side effect: people have to search for themselves and gain media literacy.
@bohnsdorfer55 @TheConversationUS I’m not a lawyer, but such a ban would probably run afoul of the #1stAmendment.
Suggestion algorithms that are self-serving have been successfully challenged in Europe, and should be here, too. But no laws will #SaveAmerica from ourselves if we don’t fix our failing #PublicEducation system. 🤷🏻♂️
@ChemicalEyeGuy @TheConversationUS No, I'm sure, it wouldn't, because you still can express yourself and you still can read everything. It's but more difficult to find it. There isn't any amendment that guarantees you max attention, isn't it?
@bohnsdorfer55 well it’s more a 5th Amendment, takings clause issue.
You’d be devaluing the property by not allowing the company from serving its customers for profit as it sees fit.
But that sort of thing is really muddled in US law, and has been for a long time.
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@volkris @ChemicalEyeGuy @TheConversationUS So this amendment prevented the stop of CFC production years ago? This amendment prevents Tik-Tok being compulsorily sold to American investors? Strange law.
@bohnsdorfer55 as I said, the law has become quite a mess over time.
You’re putting your finger on some of the mess that US courts now have to grapple with every day.
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