• MisterMoo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Why are you cheerleading for TikTok to remain in the hands of a US adversary, during the same week when said adversary forced a US company to abjectly ban US-based messaging apps?

    Retaliation. Tit for tit.

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      7 months ago

      If the government can just point at a company and force a fire sale then there is no market, there is no order, there is no financial industry. This is an incredibly dangerous law.

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        7 months ago

        The alternative is to outright ban it. Tik Tok is a cancer directly controlled by a hostile nation state. The government absolutely has the right to block foreign interference like this.

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          7 months ago

          Pray tell how is this any worse than Facebook? Is the CCP in the Los Angeles TikTok office moderating content?

          Or is this just more bullshit invented on the spot to justify an unconstitutional power grab?