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There's nothing complicated or unusual about it. It's not ironic either. China is increasingly an adversary to the US. That context is going to get a lot worse
by adventured 6y ago
There's nothing complicated or unusual about it. It's not ironic either.
China is increasingly an adversary to the US. That context is going to get a lot worse this decade. TikTok is owned by a Chinese company and ultimately must (and will) answer to China. Facebook, Google, et al. are of course American companies.
For a nation, whether Facebook concerns you as much as TikTok depends largely on which side you're on (or if you have a side at all).
The world is going to be aggressively bifurcated, US-USSR style, going forward. There will be the liberal side and the China side. China's direction is fundamentally opposed to the major liberal nations, what they commonly believe in and how their systems operate. That conflict and incompatibility will get worse as China's behavior continues to get worse.
- pishpash 6y agoUnfortunately, the so-called "liberal side" is going for all the tools like censorship and banning, state interference in the corporate sector, and more that it berates the other side about, so there is no moral case here, just pure tribalism. Actually the "liberal side" invented all these tools but has had a vastly better propaganda machine and hides under the cover of due process and procedural justice that never seem to deliver actual justice to the people most in need of it. I'm glad the world is getting to see the naked body of the "liberal side" under Trump.
- azinman2 6y agoRegardless (I both agree partially yet think you’re omitting major differences here), you still live somewhere. When states are adversaries, that means there are consequences to being involved with the other state.