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Recurring fines in the hundreds of millions is much more better than an absolute ban. The regulators get millions out of repeat offenders until TikTok caves an
by rvz 3y ago
Recurring fines in the hundreds of millions is much more better than an absolute ban.
The regulators get millions out of repeat offenders until TikTok caves and complies with the demands of the regulators.
Win for regulators, Win for users and Tiktok can still operate as long as it follows the rules.
- vasdae 3y ago>Win for regulators, Win for users That's assuming that citizens want censorship. Most of the time citizens do not have the same goals as the state's censors.
- uoaei 3y agoPersonal interests extend far beyond personal desires. We cannot impose Western interpretations of "win" via libertarian interpretations on Nepalese society and culture.
- coffeesque 3y agoIt's a win for them because they're better off not being users in the first place
- vasdae 3y agoThat is something for them to decide, not the state.
- bee_rider 3y agoIt doesn’t necessarily assume citizens want censorship. They might not want it, but they might be better with it.
- proxiful-wash 3y ago[flagged]
- swatcoder 3y agoImagine if a regional power with a territorial dispute with your country had opportunity to individually and untraceably curate exactly what your next generation watches for hours each day on their phone. Nepal can’t necessarily know if that’s happening with but they have to consider that it might be. If that’s a concern in allowing TikTok, fines wouldn’t address the problem very well since money isn’t hard to come by if it buys enough value.
- Spivak 3y agoSo the US for almost all of the world. YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Disney, Hulu, Netflix, HBO, Twitter, Apple, Spotify,... Every time this happens it's always "but it's bad when this multinational corporation I associate with China does it." Like come on, if you're worried about the Chinese government exerting authority over companies that operate in China TikTok has got to be the bottom barrel of your list. The CCP has got to be so proud that their relative secrecy has got the rest of the world quaking in their boots about how much power they wield and giving them nigh omnipotence of any person or entity that comes in contact with them.
- elcritch 3y agoPhew, luckily the US doesn’t have a corporate monoculture controlling most of these media empires and pushing their own set of values. Oh wait… crap
- evanjrowley 3y agoBlack Rock ESG?
- kelipso 3y agoUS coastal elite culture I'm guessing
- lupusreal 3y ago[dead]
- mschuster91 3y agoTiktok is funded by the CCP. Fines are no issue at that point.
- hwillis 3y ago?? Fines are not the price a government is willing to sell something for. They are a mechanism of enforcement when it's otherwise not realistic or possible to enforce rules. You levy fines when you can't just arrest people or similar, not because you're okay with the behavior. All you're saying is that we should tax things we don't like, which... duh. We do that- see alcohol, cigarettes, etc. Actual taxes work way better than fines, since they take into account the revenue involved instead of just being an arbitrary number. But an obvious consequence is that you aren't actually banning the thing, and in the case of a digital product like tiktok you're not even discouraging it. If you levied a recurring fine on tiktok in return for allowing them to do what they want, you're actively encouraging them to collect and sell as much data as they possibly can, to recoup the fixed cost of doing business with you.