It's honestly amazing the (double-think/double-speak?)/hypocrisy there is. People talk about banning TikTok from the west, and the majority of people immediate

It's honestly amazing the (double-think/double-speak?)/hypocrisy there is. People talk about banning TikTok from the west, and the majority of people immediately compare your idea with actions taken by oppressive governments - though the government cites national security reasons for doing it. "That's what China would do, are you a Chinese sympathizer? I thought the country was founded on free speech - why do you want to restrict it?" - completely ignoring the fact that it's an app designed and influenced by a primarily Chinese company which has a separate algorithm that encourages "bread and circus" type content in the west vs hard-working and industrious content in China. People talk about banning Russian media sources from the west - and the majority of people immediately cheer and welcome such a "well-thought, justified" move it is - while the government cites national security reasons for doing it. "It's justified, we don't want to influence people with disinformation produced by Russian actors and negatively influence our support for Ukraine!" - even though I'm very sure the vast majority of people support Ukraine and the actions of the west to support them, knowing that news agencies literally called "Russia Today" are very likely state owned/controlled/manipulated through various avenues, let alone mentioning the United States having media agencies controlled and influenced by capitalist and (by extension) governmental interests. Both actions at their very base, remove access to consume and contribute to the free-flow of information. Both actions are justified by governments with some vague, wish-wash reason of "national security". It's all in how it's marketed to people by the media and their own governments. I don't know what the correct answer is - there probably isn't a single sole solution to this. My personal opinion is that all large-scale social media websites that have a significant amount of their revenue come from advertising should be outright banned from existing in the west. Doesn't matter who or what they're owned by - just outright banned. The consolidation of social media platforms into "the big #", dominated by advertising and governmental interests, is going to be one of the largest reasons why decentralization is going to only grow in popularity over the coming generations.