Apple co-founder calls out ‘hypocrisy’ of politicians calling for TikTok ban | CNN Business
Apple co-founder calls out ‘hypocrisy’ of politicians calling for TikTok ban | CNN Business
CNN’s Laura Coates speaks with Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, about online privacy and Congress’ pending legislation that could lead to a ban of TikTok.
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Uhh, it's not hypocrisy.
The US government demanded access to the US based social media companies to pull whatever sensitive information they wanted. They just don't want China to have the same access.
Also, TikTok has been caught abusing exploits to get additional information outside of the permissions granted by users. IIRC, TikTok was caught stealing the MAC address from phones a few years back.
It's odd the Steve Wozniak is pretending to be ignorant of the distinction. US government wants Intel, and doesn't want a rival nation to possess similar Intel. That's basic intelligence 101.
Woz, like me, believes that nobody should have that intel. Trusting nation-states is always a bad idea.
Not to mention everyone's ignoring how China bans multiple American internet services so they can force their population to use Chinese replicas of the same thing.
The US government demanded access to the US based social media companies to pull whatever sensitive information they wanted. They just don’t want China to have the same access.
Or Russia, Iran, or North Korea.