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Written by Software Freedom Conservancy on 2025-01-19 at 14:57

Bradley and @karen published their thoughts about the TikTok ban yesterday:

"Users (and our government) should instead insist that, to operate in the USA, that ByteDance respect the software rights and freedoms of their users by releasing both the server and App components of the software under a “free and open source” (FOSS) license.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/jan/18/usa-should-require-bytedance-to-open-source-tiktok/

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Written by Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ on 2025-01-19 at 15:27

@conservancy

Replace "ByteDance" from the quotation above with "all social media companies" and you have my support.

This whole thing strikes me as a ridiculous case of "Their surveillance BAD! Our surveillance GOOD!"

@karen

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Written by tastyraspberry on 2025-01-19 at 17:54

@conservancy I agree with everything in this – except the call for a subscription model. The general population isn't ready to pay 15 bucks a month for a social media app.

More importantly though, "if you don't pay for it, you are the product" is a dangerous trap to fall into.

@pluralistic's talk at @defcon last year aptly describes why:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8&t=462

I'm honestly surprised to see this come from the SFC, especially after the great interview between Cory and @karen recently.

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