Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak calls TikTok ban ‘hypocrisy’

U.S. politicians’ move toward forcing Chinese owner ByteDance to divest ownership or, failing that, banning the popular TikTok video service is “hypocrisy,” Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says.
“Tracking you is questionable, but, my gosh, look at what we’re accusing TikTok of, and then go look at Facebook and Google and that’s how they make their businesses,” said Woz. “We’re saying, ‘Oh, you might be tracked by the Chinese.’ Well, they learned it from us.”
“If you have a principal: a person should not be tracked without them knowing it. You apply it the same to every company or every country,” said Woz. “You don’t say here’s one case where we’re going to outlaw an app, but we’re not going to do it in these other cases… I don’t like the hypocrisy.”
MacDailyNews Take: As water is to the average human body, hypocrisy is to the average politician’s. Sans hypocrisy, most politicians would immediately go poof!
MacDailyNews Note: CNN’s Laura Coates speaks with Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, about online privacy and Congress’ pending legislation that could lead to a ban of TikTok here.
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