President Biden said Friday he would support a quickly moving bipartisan bill that could ban TikTok if Congress passes the legislation. “If they pass it, I’ll sign it,” Biden told reporters …
Instagram reels and youtube shorts is structured in the same way (from what I can see superficially), though I dont use anything but Lemmy/YouTube. Though the common complaint I hear is that the algorithm is significantly worse on alternatives.
Not sure how this meaningfully changes anything other than forcing people to use another app that also violates their privacy.
Nothing of value would be lost.
But it would also be replaces by something else equily as shitty. The federal government doesn’t move fast enough to block stuff like this by name.
I has to be something broad, and enforceable. Tic tok has already been doing its thing for like 5 years.
Instagram reels and youtube shorts is structured in the same way (from what I can see superficially), though I dont use anything but Lemmy/YouTube. Though the common complaint I hear is that the algorithm is significantly worse on alternatives.
Not sure how this meaningfully changes anything other than forcing people to use another app that also violates their privacy.