Maybe the US should just create some privacy protections instead ?
That’s the opposite of fascist.
You have a risk of ending up with one or more people in congress who owns favors to the other branch of government. Or who are afraid of having a harder time defending their seat if they criticize the wrong person. And that people shrug this off as "well, that's how politics works" is really dangerous.
I'm sorry but your argument doesn't make much sense.
If money had such a large influences then why did a Presidential candidate who spent about half the other candidate win?
And then you claim the President will control the money, but the President doesn't control campaign funds. They don't even control government spending, Congress does.
> You have a risk of ending up with one or more people in congress who owns favors to the other branch of government. Or who are afraid of having a harder time defending their seat if they criticize the wrong person. And that people shrug this off as "well, that's how politics works" is really dangerous.
Ok, this makes more sense.
But the issue you raise isn't unique to the US system. It's not even unique to politics. Any human interaction can result in people "owning favors".
If you criticism is just human behavior, then I agree. But not much you can do to solve that.
Because there was more enthusiasm for the politics and/or they spent it better? But ask yourself if someone with even more support for policy but $0 could have won. And if not, why.
> Any human interaction can result in people "owning favors".
Economic favors we usually call "corruption".
When I look around the planet I find few places (among western liberal democracies) that have the same sickness with money in politics.
If you look at "democratic health" as e.g. "how many in a parliament were born to (very) rich parents", it feels like there is room for improvement.
The Enabling Act removed the power of the legislature. This is the exact opposite - the legislature still has power.
The President has always been able to veto laws. Biden could have vetoed the bill if he wanted.
And a Congress that passes a bill that says the President has a say in it's execution isn't odd either. The administrative body always has powers of execution.
And Congress is free to pass a law to reverse the law and make Tiktok legal if they want.
The parallels to Mussolini are not nonexistent.
If you mean section 2.1.a.2.a, it just allows the president to add additional apps to the ban list, not to lift TikTok, which is "hardcoded" into the law.
[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...
No, but they can direct the federal government to deprioritize enforcement.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...
But... But that would apply to Meta and Twitter as well Ö
> The Act exempts a foreign adversary controlled applica- tion from the prohibitions if the application undergoes a “qualified divestiture.” §2(c)(1). A “qualified divestiture” is one that the President determines will result in the appli- cation “no longer being controlled by a foreign adversary.” §2(g)(6)(A).
> The President must further determine that the divestiture “precludes the establishment or maintenance of any operational relationship between the United States operations of the [application] and any formerly affiliated entities that are controlled by a foreign adversary, including any cooperation with respect to the operation of a content recommendation algorithm or an agreement with respect to data sharing.”
The content recommendation algorithm is TikTok. It is developed in China by Chinese engineers. There is no lawful way for TikTok to operate under this law, and the SC has completely failed by not considering this. It's a really lazy judgement.
Probably the outcome Congress was hoping for is that it gets sold to a US buyer who would operate TikTok with the technology under license, and everyone would just pretend that now it's operated by a US interest despite that being impossible. Like sure, they would be running the servers, but the code would largely still be written in China!
Edit: Actually it would be kind of worse, because thinking about it TikTok has a lot of engineers outside China now, so how would it even work? Would they fork the code and then that would be it? It's such a crazy proposition.
When TikTok developed recommendations it was novel and on the frontier but now how it's done is much better understood and with GPUs availability can be implemented by any good ML team. Similar to Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and other, the secret sauce is content and users, not algorithm.
This feels like a fast track path to an oligarch system ? Pay enough and get your exception..
In 2028, who knows. The current president told his supporters that in four years, they won't need to vote anymore, whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean.