[Salgat]

The forced divestment is for national security reasons. Bytedance, as a Chinese company, is required by law (Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China) to provide full data access to the Chinese government on request, and they are compelled not to reveal when this occurs. Since this is done through legitimate channels (on Bytedance's side), this won't even be caught with an audit. So you have a situation where an app installed on half of America's phones shares all its data with China, along with any potential changes the government recommends for influencing the content.

[voisin]

Meta was selling data to Chinese groups and buried a report stating this until recently. This has nothing to do with national defence and everything to do with ensuring American companies control the narrative without competition.

[cscurmudgeon]

“selling” data is not in the same bucket for risk as CCP using TikTok for propaganda.

[TiredOfLife]

> Meta was selling data to Chinese groups

Source?

[WheatMillington]

>The forced divestment is for national security reasons.

Would you like to buy a bridge?

[jimnotgym]

Meta & co are required by US law to do the same for people in the rest of the world. Didn't see a huge US outcry about that, in fact I saw a lot of hate for things like GDPR

[louky]

The hate for the GDPR I read of is actually about the "allow cookie" popups that aren't needed at all are are just a form of protest by those individual sites because they are storing and selling personal information including IP addresses.

If you aren't engaged in those practices then there's no need for any GDPR annoyances for users.

I may misunderstand, I'm in America currently.

[bryanrasmussen]

The allow cookies was already there because of the cookie banner law, unfortunately GDPR did not stop the cookie law, but GDPR does say you need a way to agree to tracking etc. and to be informed when it happens so it sort of seems reasonable the allow cookies popups would be used for this.