That’s not a reason. There’s not a carve out in collusion for, “median pay increased”. Reasons are cost push. Which is why corporations spent so much time trying to blame inflation on the pandemic and supply shortages long after those matters were cleared up.

Buddy. I’m not the one here who’s naive and I’m not a tankie.

Facebook being sued for giving data to Chinese companies with tighter relationships to the CCP than Bytedance is literally headline news right now. I’m not going to spend time linking reality to you.

The fact is you’re bending over backwards to defend an unconstitutional law with unprecedented powers. The common sense and constitutional law is staring you in the face. Make it illegal on pain of ban to give, or sell American data to a sensitive country; or otherwise cause American data in your company’s control to come into their possession.

There’s one paragraph that removes the xenophobia, holds the entire data industry accountable, and is constitutional.

The question of what’s the difference isn’t some cute gotcha thing. Datasets are storage containers. China will keep their data in one too. So what is the difference between getting everything Facebook can scrape and getting everything TikTok can scrape?

And you need to look up targeted advertising. It’s literally creating a custom algorithm on everything from Reddit to Facebook to Google Search. Which is why it was used by the Russians to impact our 2016 elections via Facebook. Yet another reason your demand for evidence about Facebook is ridiculous.

Oh? And what would that difference be?

The external stimulus you’re looking for there is the cost of gas to the gas station actually rises. There is no extra cost to landlords. Raising prices in concert with your competition with no reason is the definition of collusion.

If rent everywhere suddenly jumps then the DOJ has a slam dunk case of price collusion.

Well it’s more like proving you need it issued again. Although they are going to ask for supporting ID documents too.

It’s not impossible, just harder. They’re going to need documentation for it.

It lays out the powers of our government. And it specifically says Congress can’t pass a Bill of Attainder.

That’s part of what the fediverse is about.

Oh yes the famous Russian and North Korean Social Media apps in the US.

This is a Bill of Attainder in everything but naming TikTok in the bill. Even if it passes judicial review it will not achieve what you guys think it will. The CCP will just buy the data and run targeted ads through X, FB, and Google. But foreign propaganda is okay as long as a wealthy American profits right?

Right. Sure. And there’s no war in Ba Sing Se. It’s not called the TikTok bill because it’s going to affect hundreds of companies.

That’s not true at all. If we make a law about content on social media then TikTok would need to abide by that just the same as domestic companies.

So pass a bill banning that. And punish all data vendors when they break it, instead of unconstitutionally targeting one of them.

It’s also unconstitutional. But when’s the last time anyone heard the words, “Bill of Attainder”? There’s a fairly good chance TikTok takes this to court and wins.

No. Because that’s not how politics works. This will be sold as a solved problem and the second you try to lobby to ban Facebook from selling data and ad space to the CCP the line will suddenly be about government interference in business.

Swallowing bullshit like this is part and parcel of corporate governance.

What Russian apps?

There’s only one app impacted by this. It’s unconstitutional on it’s face by being a bill of attainder in every way except actually including the name.

Obviously it doesn’t. But this doesn’t accomplish that goal. It’s like saying I hate bananas, let’s ban PBJs.

If you want to ban foreign countries collecting data then make that the law and ban TikTok when they break it. And then ban Facebook when they break it. That’s how good legislation is done. This kind of targeted bullshit is just a gift to Musk, Zuckerberg, and whoever runs Google and Apple these days. They’re going to funnel data to the CCP just as fast as they can make a profit from it.

The entire algorithm thing is also bullshit. Facebook has been courting the CCP for advertising for over a decade. To think they won’t use targeted ads for an info op is just fucking naive.

Ah yes and it was famously the politicians that showed them the light. Not other doctors conducting research and presenting evidence.

Politicians certainly never had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century of medicine.

You sir are on the right side of the IQ bell curve. We need packaging that people on the left side of the bell curve can understand.

Oh I know. I’ve been on the receiving end of “(insert noun) sympathizer” many a time.