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I feel like the twitter files weren’t sufficiently long enough ago to make this one sided argument. All governments have their hand in the cook jar.
by aunty_helen 3y ago
I feel like the twitter files weren’t sufficiently long enough ago to make this one sided argument.
All governments have their hand in the cook jar.
- zachmu 3y agoThe US government working with social media companies to censor Americans (and other people) on those platforms is also pretty bad, yes. My impression is that their influence is much weaker and more marginal than is the case with the CCP and tiktok, though. But I would be sympathetic to other countries banning US social media on the ground of US govt influence.
- neetdeth 3y agoHow can you acknowledge that the USG colludes with domestic platforms to censor Americans and not think that it is targeting foreign platforms because they make that censorship more difficult? You know, the obvious explanation that doesn’t require an unseen CCP bogeyman.
- butlike 3y agoOn the one hand, leaving the potential for CCP propaganda to reach citizen's eyes can be a threat model for insurgency. On the other hand, leaving it monitoring the data coming in, then earmarking when there's an uptick in "flagged" packets or whatever could be a valuable heuristic. It all depends on the point of view.