[Fr8TRN]

I strongly disagree that Zuckerberg is the mastermind behind taking out TikTok. A lot of this discussion was explicitly Chinese propaganda a few years ago egging on past presidents to ban a few foreign companies.

In my opinion Trump is driving this particular issue not at the behest of Zuckerberg. I dont think Trump sees eye to eye with other american social media companies. I think Trump just sees sensitive data about americans in foreign hands.

This EO action lacks complexity and is a somewhat, extremely messy way to do things. Trump's response does not react with the reality of the industry and that is all of our data is being scooped by everyone and banning a single company will do nothing. Hypothetically if he wanted to promote a culture change there needs to be more pointed discussion on this issue.

Additionally if Trump really really wanted to shove some regulation down data miners/brokers throats he would ban the sale of data (like ccpa but with actual teeth), and obliterate S.J.Res.34. GDPR is a farce and is like a cop making everything illegal but selectively enforcing the law.

This discussion on HN is somewhat helpful but few comments here are including the necessary complexity of this case.