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It's a win-win situation really isn't it? If the ban works young people are shielded from corrosive mind addling junk. To the extent it fails they learn to circ
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
It's a win-win situation really isn't it? If the ban works young
people are shielded from corrosive mind addling junk. To the extent it
fails they learn to circumvent patrician censorship. Hard to see any
downsides.
- jacooper 4y ago> If the ban works young people are shielded from corrosive mind addling junk. Have you even tried Instagram reels or YouTube shorts? They are the same if not even worse. What happening here is that the US tasted its own medicine of foreign tech influence for the first time. The US government always complained when other countries put limits on their companies, yet now they are doing the same, heck unlike the EU they are completely banning it! If tiktok was american or European, no body would've bat an eye.
- verdverm 4y ago> If tiktok was american or European, no body would've bat an eye. That's because most Chinese companies are subservient to the Chinese Communist Party, whom are doing all within their power to undermine the West. Influencing young people is just one part of that. Is there something wrong with calling it out and preventing it, or should we just let them manipulate opinions?
- the_only_law 4y agoNo, but don’t for a second pretend that banning a single app will shield young people “corrosive mind addling junk”.
- verdverm 4y agoYou seem to have missed the point that TikTok is different, being effectively controlled by a communist regime. This is not about “corrosive mind addling junk”. It is about preventing meddling by a dangerous, communist regime. They manipulate their own people, so don't for a second think they don't manipulate foreigners too.