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I don't like the Government is controlling what social media app users can use. This is as much as information control than anything else. But I'm torn, I thin

I don't like the Government is controlling what social media app users can use. This is as much as information control than anything else. But I'm torn, I think banning this app will be a positive for hundreds of millions of attention spans across the world.

krapp 4y ago
To me, it's not even difficult. It shouldn't be illegal for an app to be mindlessly entertaining. Almost all American pop culture is, literally every thing that comes down the pike is the dawn of Idiocracy until the next thing. And as far as propaganda, emotional and psychological control, manufacturing consent, etc. go, Tiktok has nothing on the incestuous relationship between American social media and the incentives of data capitalism, and the military industrial complex. Meanwhile, the government of Texas wants to censor the internet to make access to information about abortion illegal. We don't have to posit a slippery slope scenario for this, shit's already sliding. The precedent created by letting governments ban access to social media and create ideologically-driven silos of information is much worse.