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Banning TikTok, which can be seen as a tool for the Chinese government to actively collect data in real time about American citizens, and a static book like 198
by ameminator 4y ago
Banning TikTok, which can be seen as a tool for the Chinese government to actively collect data in real time about American citizens, and a static book like 1984, is absolutely not the same.
- paxys 4y agoPlenty of books are seen as foreign propaganda tools. In some cases they explicitly are that. This still doesn't give the government the right to ban them.
- midoridensha 4y agoThere's a world of difference between a writing which may have "dangerous ideas" (in someone's opinion), and a communications tool which actively spies on its users.
- hot_gril 4y ago> a communications tool which actively spies on its users Google, Facebook, etc all do that, and it's their entire business model.
- midoridensha 4y agoYeah, so what? The OP was comparing these things to banning books. What's your point?
- hot_gril 4y agoMy point is there's something wrong with targeting TikTok for "spying." I wouldn't compare this to banning books.
- smt88 4y ago> This still doesn't give the government the right to ban them. The government has a long history of regulating the transmission of speech. The First Amendment protects us against them regulating the content of speech. For example, campaign finance laws dictate who can fund speech in certain situations, but they don't dictate what a candidate actually says. That said, the First Amendment is limited by "compelling government interest," so there are no absolutes. We are, as we have been for a few centuries, at the mercy of the whims of the Supreme Court. There are no absolutes, and the Supreme Court can interpret anything however they want.
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoIf there was a book that told the Chinese government about me when I read it I would want that book banned.
- nhchris 4y agoIt's not the same, but it shows why the argument that "there are alternatives" doesn't hold water.