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Banning an app reduces another nation’s control over the culture and mindset of your country’s people. Whether this is a concern or not is less clear, but theor
by CincinnatiMan 6y ago
Banning an app reduces another nation’s control over the culture and mindset of your country’s people. Whether this is a concern or not is less clear, but theoretically China could censor content that is critical of China, which India and US may not approve of. Or even more subtly it could nudge people in certain directions. Such as the claim that Russia is stoking the fires of internal strife within the US.
- andrepd 6y agoThat last claim is not so much s claim as proven fact.
- thewhitetulip 6y agoI'm pretty sure we weren't seeing Chinese culture via TikTok. Indian Tiktokers made lot of money via TikTok. But does this work to nudge China? Is Indian lost revenue big enough for China to change their style just because TikTok is banned?
- CincinnatiMan 6y agoThe point isn't to get China to change, but for a country to have control over its own people instead of a different country having that control.
- thewhitetulip 6y agoIs that's the case then I can understand. The way I hear it in Indian Media is that our supreme leader "taught China a lesson by banning apps"
- lowwave 6y agopeople should all just bit bitorrent over i2p for all internet access. So everyone is anonymous at all time. No body should be known who they are unless they want to you.