MTG: Banning TikiTok Opens "Pandora's Box" To Future Government Bans

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right Georgia congresswoman and leading supporter of Donald Trump, said she opposed the TikTok bill because it is “opening Pandora’s box” to future problems.

Speaking on the House floor, Greene said she was the only member of Congress who had been banned from social media, and that “this is really about controlling Americans’ data.” She said: This is a Pandora’s box. What’s to stop Congress or the United States government in the future from forcing the sale of another social media company claiming that it’s protecting Americans data from foreign adversaries?

She added: When the government moves on to forcing the sale of TikTok, who’s going to buy it? That’s the question. Who will be the next to control the data of over 170 million Americans? Are we going to trust Mark Zuckerberg to control their data? I certainly don’t.

 

[Webster]

For what its' worth, she's got a point; if government can ban one social media app, what's to stop them from banning others?

 

[DrLeftover]

When something is a known security hole for an enemy state to waltz through into government computer systems that are SUPPOSED to be secure (again, the weakest link in the security fence is the users), banning it at some low level in the network model may be the only answer.

 

[Dead2009]

Tiktok is a cancer anyways, so good riddance to garbage.

 

[EllieCat]

Tiktok is a cancer anyways, so good riddance to garbage.

The people using it are losing braincells everyday.

 

[NeoMetallix]

I love how anyone that isn't going along with the mainstream narrative is always labeled far-right. I'd consider her right but not far-right. Heck, even leftists are called right wing now like Glen Greenwald or Russell Brand.