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While I don't personally mind banning Tik Toc since I think that it is a drain on our culture and is likely addictive, I do have serious concerns: Why nothing

While I don't personally mind banning Tik Toc since I think that it is a drain on our culture and is likely addictive, I do have serious concerns: Why nothing about US media companies pushing advertising based on data that really should be protected by privacy laws? Why nothing about the material released from Twitter by Matt Taibi, et. al.? Very concerning stuff for a country talking the talk about democracy. Why not enforce limits on what kids can watch and for how long, as China does? While I am all for free speech and liberty for adults, I think it is necessary for parents to put some guardrails on their kids. There is a lot more at stake here: the USA (my country) is struggling to maintain the dollar hegemony, has some severe looming economic problems, and has the same general problems shared by all countries. The USA has been very successful by carrying a big stick and hitting other countries with it. But, what was once a successful strategy is, I think, now a very poor strategy. An Empire like ours should sometimes orchestrate a graceful exit, on terms best for our country. Now when I say best for our country, I mean best for people, and not what is best for Wall Street, Our Military Industrial Complex, etc.

SparkyMcUnicorn 4y ago
> Why not enforce limits on what kids can watch and for how long, as China does? While I am all for free speech and liberty for adults, I think it is necessary for parents to put some guardrails on their kids. This is the parent's job. Kids can't even play in the front yard without CPS being called, and adding more complexities like this sounds like an even worse nightmare.
BLKNSLVR 4y ago
The US is "the ship of Theseus"'ing itself, replacing parts that have worked in the past, but are no longer serving the ruling class to their satisfaction, with parts (policies) plagiarised from China that do better serve the ruling class. Carefully selected to keep the ship distinctly itself, but still ever so slightly different each time. (I just like the irony of plagiarising policy from China as a parallel to their plagiarising IP from the US - and likely elsewhere).
tick_tock_tick 4y ago
> Why nothing about US media companies pushing advertising based on data that really should be protected by privacy laws? Privacy is not the major concern here. > Why nothing about the material released from Twitter by Matt Taibi, et. al.? Very concerning stuff for a country talking the talk about democracy. Twitter is subject to the US courts and legal system and while there are issue we can work to resolve them. > Why not enforce limits on what kids can watch and for how long, as China does? While I am all for free speech and liberty for adults, I think it is necessary for parents to put some guardrails on their kids. Again not the issue. Seriously, read at-least the start of the bill it makes it very very clear the main concern is limiting foreign powers ability to mass influence the general USA population.

SparkyMcUnicorn 4y ago

> Why not enforce limits on what kids can watch and for how long, as China does? While I am all for free speech and liberty for adults, I think it is necessary for parents to put some guardrails on their kids. This is the parent's job. Kids can't even play in the front yard without CPS being called, and adding more complexities like this sounds like an even worse nightmare.

BLKNSLVR 4y ago

The US is "the ship of Theseus"'ing itself, replacing parts that have worked in the past, but are no longer serving the ruling class to their satisfaction, with parts (policies) plagiarised from China that do better serve the ruling class. Carefully selected to keep the ship distinctly itself, but still ever so slightly different each time. (I just like the irony of plagiarising policy from China as a parallel to their plagiarising IP from the US - and likely elsewhere).

tick_tock_tick 4y ago

> Why nothing about US media companies pushing advertising based on data that really should be protected by privacy laws? Privacy is not the major concern here. > Why nothing about the material released from Twitter by Matt Taibi, et. al.? Very concerning stuff for a country talking the talk about democracy. Twitter is subject to the US courts and legal system and while there are issue we can work to resolve them. > Why not enforce limits on what kids can watch and for how long, as China does? While I am all for free speech and liberty for adults, I think it is necessary for parents to put some guardrails on their kids. Again not the issue. Seriously, read at-least the start of the bill it makes it very very clear the main concern is limiting foreign powers ability to mass influence the general USA population.