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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