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Written by Oliver Sampson on 2024-09-21 at 13:06

I've been reading @pluralistic regularly for nearly a year now, and he's finally written something I don't agree with:

"Given the recent panic at the prospect that the Chinese government is using Tiktok to spy on Americans, it's pretty amazing that American commercial surveillance has escaped serious Congressional scrutiny."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/20/water-also-wet/

I surmise that the reason #TikTok receives scrutiny and the the American #surveillance industry receives none is exactly the same. 1/2

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Written by Oliver Sampson on 2024-09-21 at 13:06

Over at #opensecrets, #Tiktok is on record as having spent just a little north of $200k on lobbying:

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2023&id=F329850

whereas #Google has spent close to $17 million since 2014:

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2014&id=D000022008

[#]Facebook, $20 million since 2009:

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2020&id=D000033563

[#]Amazon, $20 million in 2023 alone!

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/amazon-com/summary?id=D000023883

[#]Surveilance is fine, as long as companies pay for the, ahem, right to do it. And I bet if TikTok were to slop into the feeding trough, it'd be fine, too. 2/2

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