Do you think a Great Firewall of America is a good thing? Because that is what this ruling enables.

Do you think TikToc is a net positive for the world or the US?

	▲	yibg 6 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Isn't that the same argument used by China for why the GFW is needed? The US allows all sorts of things that can be argued as net negative (e.g. smoking).
	▲	yyhhsj0521 6 months ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It is not. But not banning it for geopolitical reasons is a net positive for everyone.
	▲	jMyles 6 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It is a net negative. Attempts at intervention by legacy states over the evolution of the internet (which will obviously fail on sufficiently long time-scales) are also a net negative. Two net negatives do not make a net positive.