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>I’m not sure which part of our national security surveillance state apparatus is endangered by foreign ownership, The propaganda part. Remember a month ago w
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
>I’m not sure which part of our national security surveillance state apparatus is endangered by foreign ownership,
The propaganda part.
Remember a month ago when everyone's feed had a video in it from the TikTok CEO encouraging people to side with TikTok.
They are scared shitless of not being mostly in control of that kind of power when applied to Americans. They are worried that the next Saddam is going to pay TikTok, or some future foreign competitor to torpedo whatever the next WMD lie is (and this will be done with Chinese blessing because that will be in their geopolitical interest).
The possibility was easy to ignore back when all the social media giants were American and the feds had jurisdiction and soft power over them. Now there's a new entrant that China has jurisdiction and soft power over. They want the status quo back. Hence why all the bill language is mostly about preventing foreign ownership.
- imbnwa 4y ago>Remember a month ago when everyone's feed had a video in it from the TikTok CEO encouraging people to side with TikTok. Remember how Elon makes it a point to stick himself into everybody's Twitter feed and even fired a guy for not maximizing this further?
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoThe establishment can squash Elon if he gets so far out of line that it pisses a critical mass of them off. He's a US Citizen. His business assets are in the US (mostly). They can get at him so long as some large subset of "they" is ok enough with it. They can't do that with "hypothetical Chinese Elon" so long as said Elon remains in good standing with the powers that be there.
- imbnwa 4y agoThe establishment will give him carte blanche if Musk's Twitter purchase proves out for the GOP Presidential election