| ▲ | mrtksn 13 hours ago |
| If US wants to imitate China, they should imitate its industry not its restrictions to freedoms. The ideal world order isn't the one where Chinese can't find out what happened on Tiananmen square and Americans can't find out what happened in Gaza. That's a very shitty arrangement and I am shocked that the Americans are picking that as their future. |
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| ▲ | SonicScrub 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > The ideal world order isn't the one where Chinese can't find out what happened on Tiananmen square and Americans can't find out what happened in Gaza. I don't see how this law banning a social media site brings us at all closer to a world where Americans cannot get access to accurate information about major global conflicts. This is so far down the imagined "slippery slope" as to be absurd. In fact, I'd strongly argue that this law would achieve the opposite. If you're relying on Tik Tok for accurate information like this, then you are opening yourself to echo chambers, biased takes, and outright propaganda. There are many excellent sources out there in America freely available and easily accessible. |
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| ▲ | mrtksn 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Simple: editorial preferences. Remember how Musk decided that after the elections Twitter will prioritize fun instagram of politics? | | |
| ▲ | SonicScrub 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | If your concern is editorial preference, then wouldn't a social media application explicitly controlled by a State apparatus be a concern? I fail to see how anything going on at Twitter is relevant to what I mentioned. Does Twitter shifting its content priorities somehow make the plethora of excellence sources unavailable? |
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| ▲ | airstrike 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Luckily nobody needs TikTok to find out what happened in Gaza. |
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| ▲ | est 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The problem is, the world does't need meta/google/twtr either. The bill would eventually backfire US internet companies so bad. | | |
| ▲ | mrtksn 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Exactly how I expect things to pan out. Some 10-15 years ago the countries with dictatorships had the idea that they need to control the discussions on internet, now it is the US. I expect it to have cascading effect as Twitter, FB, Instagram etc are all foreign companies with known associations with the US government and intelligence and ban those everywhere fir national security reasons. | |
| ▲ | airstrike 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't understand what this has to do with US companies at all. It's about foreign companies. | | |
| ▲ | mrtksn 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Why do you think that Bezos and Zuckerberg have seen the light with the elections if the US government has nothing to do with these private enterprises? Twitter and Meta are foreign everywhere else, everywhere else except China TikTok is foreign as well and apparently they all lick their respective governments. | | |
| ▲ | airstrike 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | And if Twitter and Meta are found to be interfering with national interests in foreign countries and get banned or reeled in due to that, how is that a bad outcome for the world? | | |
| ▲ | mrtksn 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | it is a bad outcome because it means everyone is locked in their propaganda locality and theres no one to break the narrative. IMHO it’s beneficial to have a global network as we are living on a planet with artificial borders. | | |
| ▲ | airstrike 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Less propaganda is always better. Less foreign propaganda doubly so. There's no benefit in a plurality of propaganda. |
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| ▲ | walls 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The government makes Meta and Xitter suppress Palestinian content, they can't do that to TikTok, so it's being banned. | | |
| ▲ | airstrike 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is demonstrably false as the discussion about banning TikTok predates the current conflict in Gaza by a long time. |
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| ▲ | mrtksn 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | very true, everything started on the seventh and ended thanks to the strength of the new American president and now it’s all fine again as it was before the seventh. no need for political movements or anything, lets concentrate on the more positive things as Musk said. | | |
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