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# The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet
- URL: https://werd.io/the-tiktok-ban-is-a-betrayal-of-the-open-internet/
- Published: 2023-03-28T14:24:24.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-28T14:24:24.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:21

“Banning TikTok is not, as lawmakers claimed in the hearing, a sign that we’re about to get real tech reform. It will almost certainly be a PR move that lets some of the same politicians who profess outrage at TikTok get back to letting everyone from Comcast to the DMV sell your personal information, looking the other way while cops buy records of your movements or arrest you using faulty facial recognition.” [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://www.theverge.com/23653141/tiktok-ban-bytedance-congress-hearing-first-amendment-open-internet)\]