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What is the RESTRICT Act? TikTok and Beyond

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Disastrous Dystopian Things Are Closer Than It May Seem

TikTok has tried to sort of comb the waters in Congress and they've done things like routing US data through Oracle cloud servers that are based in the United States. They also said they're instituting audits of algorithms and they're making a new department in the company entirely focused on managing US user data. So they're saying hey we're firewalling this a bit if the problems if the suspicions that you have are that we are in the pocket of what you consider a foreign adversary then we'll move it all to the U.S. It makes me think of some post-Soviet collapsed countries who had 10 pot dictators and past laws I believe it was Romania right what's his name

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