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There are many things wrong with this comparison. 1) Twitter is not an arm of the US government in the way that Tiktok and most Chinese companies are. 2) The
by Invictus0 4y ago
There are many things wrong with this comparison.
1) Twitter is not an arm of the US government in the way that Tiktok and most Chinese companies are.
2) The law is not calling for the information on Tiktok to be banned. For instance, an image of a tweet saying "fuck Xi Jinping" could not be viewed in China, but an image/video of a tiktok saying "fuck biden" would be fine to view in America.
3) Tiktok is not benign like a book is. It extracts information from the user and sends it to the company servers.
4) It is trivial to use the platform to perform psyops; the company could easily mix subtly pro-china content into the feed from time to time.
- all2 4y agoRe item 1: See [0]. Arguably any corporation involved in government censoring operations (which are by definition extra-judicial) is an active arm of said government. There's a reason people have taken to calling our current state "crony capitalism". Re item 3: TikTok is worse than that. The recommendation feeds are specifically designed to rot the minds of American citizens. [1] [0] https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/house-gop-wants-fbis-twitter-censorship-reimbursement-records https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/house-gop-want... [1] https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/24/23467181/difference-between-tik-tok-in-china-and-the-us https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/24/23467181/difference-betwe...
- all2 4y agoI'm curious to hear the position of those who are downing here. I'm not averse to opposing opinions or information.