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> The irony with your comment is that TikTok's masters in China already have the same power that SOPA was supposed to grant the US government Yes, the power of
by segasaturn 3y ago
> The irony with your comment is that TikTok's masters in China already have the same power that SOPA was supposed to grant the US government
Yes, the power of democracy. People spoke up and prevented a harmful law from being passed - why is TikTok exercising that right, in the same way as Google and Facebook, a problem? It sounds like you want the US to become like the CCP instead of vice versa.
- MBCook 3y agoBecause TikTok is owned by one of our adversaries. They’ve been accused of pushing propaganda and they just accidentally proved how effective they can be at causing political change in the US. Exactly what their opponents were afraid they had the power to do. It looks REALLY bad. In this case it wasn’t anything sinister and they were open about it but tactically it was probably a massive mistake. Also why didn’t they just tell everyone in the US? Why did only certain users get the message? Because of where they lived? Because they were voting age? They also proved they have an ability to target specific people for political action based on some (unknown) criteria. That also looks horrible and plays right into their opponents hands.
- jjfoooo4 3y ago> Exactly what their opponents were afraid they had the power to do. They notified their users that their elected representatives were fast tracking a bill targeted at the service they were using. Negotiated in secret because those representatives knew it would be enormously unpopular with their constituents.