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China is a special case, as Tiktok does not have the oversight of a democracy.

• hcfman 3y ago
  Cough, cough. Democracy ?
• hcfman 3y ago
  I wish I lived in a democracy. Unfortunately I live in the Netherlands. A country in which the government itself carries out criminality against it's citizens (They call it interventions), where prosecutors lie regularly in court, are found out and it's no big deal. A country where the attorney general writes in a letter that if a prosecutor lies in court it's not perjury and he cannot be prosecuted for it. A Country where the head of a court was publically outed as being responsible for the jailing of 9 innocent people on fabricated evidence, one of whom consequently commited suicide and there are no consequences. (See de Villamoord). I would be great to live in a democracy. However, I don't think that picking on Tiktok is going to make it so.
  • hcfman 3y ago
    Instead of investigating tiktok, why doesn't the EU investigate why obstruction of justice by the government is not punishable. Why does it not investigate why they (The Dutch government) introduced a new law in 2020 that everyone in government that has secrets to keep may lie in court under oath and not be punished by perjury. Which undermines the very concept of a democratic state of law.
• gwervc 3y ago
  The exact same thing can be said about Instagram and the US. The fact consumers are summoned once in a while to chose in-between two sockpuppets of the establishment (corporations + deep state) is of little relevance, especially to foreigners like me living under its imperialism.
  • mathgradthrow 3y ago
    It matters quite a lot that it's bound by effectively no treaties or oversight by the population. Instagram also sucks, but there's at least a theoretical path to reining it in.