Tag: TikTok
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Montana Sort Of Banned TikTok
On May 17th, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed into law a bill that technically makes it illegal for TikTok to operate in the state. The bill is however clearly illegal. Montana outright banned TikTok for everyone — is that legal? In my assessment this TikTok ban is truly baseless. I’ve written before that fears over…
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Ari Cohn: Montana Made All Social Media Illegal Just To Ban TikTok
Montana Governor Somehow (Accidentally?) Manages to Make TikTok Ban Bill Even Dumber
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Advertising Demon, And Other Stories
People like getting services at no direct cost, advertisers like selling to those people. While most want services at no cost to them, they don’t like being tracked. Modern ad tech puts people into a kind of human terrarium. Large tech platforms from Alphabet (once Google) and Meta (once Facebook) down the line gather and…
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Security Risk To Banning TikTok
I’ve written that I don’t support a TikTok ban. Banning TikTok on grounds of national security and individual privacy, is ridiculous until the U.S. has some sort of general privacy protection enshrined into law. But I, not virtually anyone else have examined the individual cybersecurity risks to a TikTok ban. Robert Olson, a security researcher…
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A Blue Check On A Pike Warns Us Not To Give Up The Web
Today is my seventh day of Twitter limbo. On March 31st, I became Elon Musk’s mother for several hours. But the account was put into a type of quarantine. My username replaced by a dot, my photo removed, I cannot log in. But my profile, with the years-old blue check still stands like a head…
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TikTok, Drugs, Congress, and Monopoly
Very few accusations are unique to TikTok. But, to the extent that members of congress know about data brokers, I assume they feel the U.S. data brokers’ selling lists of all the closeted gay people, with cancer, taking anti depressants in Kentucky are good and clean. But first party data collection by the Chinese Communist…
