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I think two things can be true about congressional motivation to legislate tiktok - it's almost entirely fueled (in congress) by economic anxiety and xenophobi

I think two things can be true about congressional motivation to legislate tiktok - it's almost entirely fueled (in congress) by economic anxiety and xenophobia towards China - it's good that this is happening, because it's good to legislate against brainmelting, algorithm-driven platforms This same legislation being levied against the exact same feature on "american platforms" like YouTube and Instagram might never happen, but I hope it does in the future.

mathgradthrow 3y ago
>xenophobia towards china. China is the explicitly and openly hostile to the US.
- rchaud 3y ago
  The US should have a word with American CEOs sending China billions in hardware assembly contracts then.
- humansareok1 3y ago
  They're spouting typical tankie BS.
  - mcpar-land 3y ago
    Believe me, I'm not a tankie. I just watched the congressional hearing where a Republican senator repeatedly asked the TikTok CEO, Shou Chew, if he had Chinese citizenship, if he was a member of the CCP, etc. etc. with Shou repeatedly saying that he's not Chinese, he's from Singapore. That's not measured concern about TikTok possibly being an arm of China's surveillance state, that's just being racist. The Republican half of the bipartisan support for legislating TikTok isn't from concern about dopamine-pushing algorithms and misinformation, it's just xenophobia.
    - humansareok1 3y ago
      Tom Cotton literally has brain damage but there are indeed legitimate concerns about TikTok's relationship with the CCP. It's not racist or xenophobic. You are just stupid and spend too much time on buzzfeed.
dragonmost 3y ago
It's not xenophobia it's purely about the communist party. They are wagging a cold war against the US with barely any response afraid that it will affect their economy. The concern with tiktok is not privacy it's China's control over a large part of the US population and they've more than proved it this time.

mathgradthrow 3y ago

>xenophobia towards china. China is the explicitly and openly hostile to the US.

rchaud 3y ago
The US should have a word with American CEOs sending China billions in hardware assembly contracts then.
humansareok1 3y ago
They're spouting typical tankie BS.
- mcpar-land 3y ago
  Believe me, I'm not a tankie. I just watched the congressional hearing where a Republican senator repeatedly asked the TikTok CEO, Shou Chew, if he had Chinese citizenship, if he was a member of the CCP, etc. etc. with Shou repeatedly saying that he's not Chinese, he's from Singapore. That's not measured concern about TikTok possibly being an arm of China's surveillance state, that's just being racist. The Republican half of the bipartisan support for legislating TikTok isn't from concern about dopamine-pushing algorithms and misinformation, it's just xenophobia.
  - humansareok1 3y ago
    Tom Cotton literally has brain damage but there are indeed legitimate concerns about TikTok's relationship with the CCP. It's not racist or xenophobic. You are just stupid and spend too much time on buzzfeed.

dragonmost 3y ago

It's not xenophobia it's purely about the communist party. They are wagging a cold war against the US with barely any response afraid that it will affect their economy. The concern with tiktok is not privacy it's China's control over a large part of the US population and they've more than proved it this time.