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>Banning TikTok wouldn’t be a dangerous precedent. Authoritarian countries do that all the time. Wanting to live in a non-authoritarian country, I think you mi
by Clubber 3y ago
>Banning TikTok wouldn’t be a dangerous precedent. Authoritarian countries do that all the time.
Wanting to live in a non-authoritarian country, I think you missed the point you just made, or were just being sarcastic and it went over my head.
There's a theory that this push for a Tik-Tok ban is being funded by Meta, who can't buy it like it bought other competition like Instagram and WhatsApp.
Monopolies are bad, mm kay.
- anon373839 3y agoAgree on the citation to authoritarian regimes. Otherwise, though, I have no qualms about banning what may very well be a mass psyops machine run by a hostile foreign government.
- Clubber 3y ago>very well be a mass psyops machine run by a hostile foreign government. I think that fits word-for-word for domestic companies minus the foreign part.
- anon373839 3y agoI think so, too. But that’s no reason to give TikTok a pass.
- Clubber 3y agoI agree. I think the government needs to block a whole lot of M&A than they do. I wonder if the ultimate plan is to break TikTok away from the CCP and allow it to be bought domestically. I recall Trump trying to do that with Larry Ellison of all people, but I think he ran into roadblocks. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/tech/oracle-tiktok-us-china-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/tech/oracle-tiktok-us-china-i...