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The focus on TikTok is counter productive, you build a sentiment that the goal is to ban tiktok because it's Chinese, that's racist, rather than raise awareness

The focus on TikTok is counter productive, you build a sentiment that the goal is to ban tiktok because it's Chinese, that's racist, rather than raise awareness against social media in general Now you get people complaining about CIA agents working at Google/Meta/Twitter doing moderation and who know what else (spying and profiling) [1] How come Anti-Vax and bunch of conspiracy theorists grew on these US platform despite having CIA agents working there doing moderation, did they help push/promote them? Yet none of that happen on TikTok, so why complain? None of western youth want TikTok banned, they'll grow up being defiant against their institutions if that ever happen [1] - https://nypost.com/2022/12/22/facebook-twitter-stocked-with-ex-fbi-cia-officials/ https://nypost.com/2022/12/22/facebook-twitter-stocked-with-...

hgsgm 4y ago
"China" is an adversial foreign authortiatian government, not a race. US has wide latitude for freedom of speech.
- sasattack 4y ago
  Unless your a person of color, a leftist, etc of course ? Or a Iraqi female artist making a floor mosaic of Bush to walk on ?
  - willcipriano 4y ago
    Bush was three presidents ago, if that's your concrete example I'd say you don't have leg to stand on.
    - sasattack 4y ago
      It's really cute you think I couldn't have given more examples and didn't just choose an especially messed up example where the United States murdered an artist and then pretended It was a mistake
- pokepim 4y ago
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- Kukumber 4y ago
  To whom? it's not adversial to me Are you saying the US is an authoritarian government that enforce this view on me? Is this why they can enforce their trade sanctions on everyone?
yucky 4y ago
> they'll grow up being defiant against their institutions if that ever happen I'm sorry, are you saying that's a bad thing?
- Kukumber 4y ago
  Weak institutions is what allowed the US to spread its military bases all over the world

hgsgm 4y ago

"China" is an adversial foreign authortiatian government, not a race. US has wide latitude for freedom of speech.

sasattack 4y ago
Unless your a person of color, a leftist, etc of course ? Or a Iraqi female artist making a floor mosaic of Bush to walk on ?
- willcipriano 4y ago
  Bush was three presidents ago, if that's your concrete example I'd say you don't have leg to stand on.
  - sasattack 4y ago
    It's really cute you think I couldn't have given more examples and didn't just choose an especially messed up example where the United States murdered an artist and then pretended It was a mistake
pokepim 4y ago
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Kukumber 4y ago
To whom? it's not adversial to me Are you saying the US is an authoritarian government that enforce this view on me? Is this why they can enforce their trade sanctions on everyone?

yucky 4y ago

> they'll grow up being defiant against their institutions if that ever happen I'm sorry, are you saying that's a bad thing?

Kukumber 4y ago
Weak institutions is what allowed the US to spread its military bases all over the world