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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://social.sfconservancy.org/objects/5026bded-e993-4268-b318-d3d62f4230fe">Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 23:58:55 JST</a><a href="https://social.sfconservancy.org/users/conservancy" title="conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/36886-48-20230319185726.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Software Freedom Conservancy" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Software Freedom Conservancy</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article>Bradley and <a href="https://floss.social/@karen">@karen</a> published their thoughts about the TikTok ban yesterday:<br><br>"Users (and our government) should instead insist that, to operate in the USA, that ByteDance respect the software rights and freedoms of their users by releasing both the server and App components of the software under a “free and open source” (FOSS) license.<br><br><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/jan/18/usa-should-require-bytedance-to-open-source-tiktok/">https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/jan/18/usa-should-require-bytedance-to-open-source-tiktok/</a></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4404113#notice-8615206">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-19T23:58:55+09:00" title="Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 23:58:55 JST">about 11 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://social.sfconservancy.org/objects/5026bded-e993-4268-b318-d3d62f4230fe" rel="external" title="Sent from social.sfconservancy.org via ActivityPub">social.sfconservancy.org</a></span></span><a href="https://social.sfconservancy.org/objects/5026bded-e993-4268-b318-d3d62f4230fe">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: sfconservancy.org</div><h5><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/jan/18/usa-should-require-bytedance-to-open-source-tiktok/">Everyone is asking the wrong questions about TikTok</a></h5><div></div></header><div>As we write this, everyone is wondering what will happen with TikTok in the next 48 hours.
Social media as a phenomenon was designed to manufacture drama to sell advertising, and 
in this moment, the meta-drama is bigger than the in-App drama.The danger of pervasive software is clear: powerful entities — be
they governments or for-profit corporations — should not control the
online narrative and remain unregulated in their use of personal data
generated by these systems.  However, the approach taken by Congress and
  upheld by SCOTUS remains fundamentally flawed.  When there is power imbalance
between a software systems' users and its owners, the answer is never
“pick a different owner”.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 23:58:55 JSTSoftware Freedom Conservancy
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Bradley and @karen published their thoughts about the TikTok ban yesterday:

"Users (and our government) should instead insist that, to operate in the USA, that ByteDance respect the software rights and freedoms of their users by releasing both the server and App components of the software under a “free and open source” (FOSS) license.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/jan/18/usa-should-require-bytedance-to-open-source-tiktok/
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  Everyone is asking the wrong questions about TikTok
  As we write this, everyone is wondering what will happen with TikTok in the next 48 hours. Social media as a phenomenon was designed to manufacture drama to sell advertising, and in this moment, the meta-drama is bigger than the in-App drama.The danger of pervasive software is clear: powerful entities — be they governments or for-profit corporations — should not control the online narrative and remain unregulated in their use of personal data generated by these systems. However, the approach taken by Congress and upheld by SCOTUS remains fundamentally flawed. When there is power imbalance between a software systems' users and its owners, the answer is never “pick a different owner”.

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