Flutterby™! : TikTok

If you didn't catch up on US lawmakers exposing themselves as willing to be puppets of Meta PR to embrace Sinophobia rather than looking at privacy protections generally, Emily Gorcenski posted a good summary in meme form, and Markus Hutchins linked to a TikTok summarizing the hearings.

But if you want a more serious deeper dive into US attempts to build a "great wall" style censorship system for the Internet, Bruce Schneier looks at banning TikTok.

And, later, link-dumping: Will Oremus in the Washington Post: America’s online privacy problems are much bigger than TikTok — Concerns of Chinese data access highlight Congress’s own failure to protect Americans’ personal information