They’re technically not banning tiktok, they’re banning China from owning tiktok
This is primarily intended as a hostile buyout of tiktok. It has literally nothing to do with China.
Lmao, the USA doesn’t operate the commercial sector outside of power, trains, rockets, and planes. It won’t benefit from the sale in any way other than lowering Chinese involvement.
The US government works for the billionaires that run the economy. Many billionaires want to buy tiktok. In fact, there’s already teams of people set up for buying out tiktok. The government is just the tool for the hostile acquisition. No one said the US government is directly purchasing tiktok.
They’re not going to sell though. The US only makes up a single-digit % of their users.
How much of their ad revenue comes from America though?
Which is somehow even worse : it’s like only the USA is allowed to spy on everyone!
(Not you OP, you = governments)
You want to block corporate social media sites as propaganda
I want to block corporate social media sites because they’re parasites on society.
We are not the same.
Im actually quite upset that lawmakers havent used this to pass generalized privacy protection.
They have an opportunity to end mass survailance, but thats OK if its US survailance
I want to block them because they are both
Don’t forget China blocks tiktok too.
China doesn’t block Douyin
I believe they use a different backend/storage. Different content shows up depending if you are searching from Tiktok or Douyin. Perhaps someone from Bytedance is curating select content from Tiktok for Douyin.
Either way, if I put a video on Tiktok it does not mean Chinese users on Douyin will see it.
https://chinasocialmedia.net/tiktok-and-douyin-are-not-the-same/
IIRC China tried to stir up its internet users about the US blocking Tiktok and it fell flat because it’s blocked for them too.
China controls speech to Censor Genocide : boooo
America controls speech to Censor Genocide : yaaaay
The irony of America doing exactly the same censorship as China when the roles are reversed, and people are cheering it on as if it’s some gocha
I don’t know, but we can officially stop bragging about our “FrEeDoMs!”
China bans those apps because they’re objectively tools of the US spy programs. Two off them were part of NSAs PRISM. The US paid teenagers to try and establish a social media platform in Cuba for the purpose of destabilizing their government. The rest of the world would do well to ban any US social media to be honest.
No way, only China and Russia (THE BAD GUYS) spy while the US is innocent and unaware of even how to spy because it’s the GOOD GUY.
Huh, interesting. Thanks for that.
ETA: I realized I was unclear. I’m thanking the user for giving me such a clear reason to block them. It’s not always so cut and dry.
Great. Waiting for the day .world defeds because they can’t handle facts.
https://news.yahoo.com/google-facebook-cooperated-nsa-prism-145643099.html https://apnews.com/article/technology-cuba-united-states-government-904a9a6a1bcd46cebfc14bea2ee30fdf
Defederating from lemmy.ml? What a loss!
Oh look… the liberals are at it again.
Your whataboutism doesn’t change the fact that the west’s claims of valuing “press freedom” turning out to be completely false posits severe implications for your ideology, liberal - not anyone’s living in China.
China isn’t a good country either. I don’t get why your so excited to back people up who commit genocide.
Also is banning TikTok really preventing freedom of the press? They are beholden to the Chinese government and used to suppress talk about the Uighyur cultural genocide.
How about we instead replace it with something like Lemmy but for video?
China isn’t a good country either.
China never claimed to have a “free press.”
Also is banning TikTok really preventing freedom of the press?
What (alleged) “freedom of the press”? This (supposed) “freedom of the press” is a cornerstone of liberal ideology - not whatever it is that China is doing.
Again… the realization that liberal ideology is full of holes (and always have been) has implications for liberals - not people living in the PRC.
China also blocks tiktok
I love these winnie pooh memes
I hate tiktok
but all these talks about keeping children off phones is restricting the flow of information to a point that it scares me. we have Enciclopedias in our pockets ffs.
if the bar kids from easily accessing the internet, they’re effectively blocking 2mil people (14-17) from instant access to information. (I did some sleep deprived math, dont @me if its off)
As far as I know, there’s no legislation being talked about to keep kids off their phones, or even social media. This is more of a concern about China having unfettered access to user data at the drop of a hat, which I can absolutely agree is an issue. Though I don’t know that current legislation is the solution.
That said, kids absolutely do need to spend more time off their phone than they do. We’ve seen legitimate issues arise from perpetual phone use. The issue is… you can’t really legislate that. It’s parents that need to get their heads out of the sand and actually parent.
