The measure that sailed unanimously through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is quickly spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance.
US officials have cited the widespread commercial availability of US citizens’ data as another source of national security risk. The US government and other domestic law enforcement agencies are also known to have purchased US citizens’ data from commercial data brokers.
The Federal trollops find hot button issues that hit each generation to keep us all confused and pissed off, and bring up “bills” whenever they want to mess with, and distract us.
It’s so pathetically transparent. They’ll make sure these issues are never truly resolved to keep everyone too busy worrying about basic things so we forget how much they continue to fuck up the entire country for their rich betters.