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Imagine if a regional power with a territorial dispute with your country had opportunity to individually and untraceably curate exactly what your next generatio
by swatcoder 3y ago
Imagine 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]
- hackerlight 3y agoLook up a map of Asia and you will understand why Nepal is more paranoid about China than the US.
- dontlaugh 3y agoExactly, it’s just western jingoism to justify more war.