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This isn't about regulating what content American citizens are creating. It's about regulating the involvement of adversarial foreign governments to distribute
by LargeWu 3y ago
This isn't about regulating what content American citizens are creating. It's about regulating the involvement of adversarial foreign governments to distribute that information. These are quite separate concerns.
- aprilthird2021 3y ago>regulating the involvement of adversarial foreign governments to distribute that information How is that any different than say Press TV, whose website and media are not banned and are freely viewable in the US because we have freedom of expression?
- jimmydoe 3y agoIf TikTok is propaganda, they have to register as foreign agent, which they haven’t, so that will make them illegal. However, I don’t see them being propaganda yet, but technically they can be overnight by download a new model from headquarter (and even without US user data leave US soil). The bill is trying to stop that possibility. I don’t feel it morally sound to punish someone for sth they haven’t done yet. But what do I know? Reading many here and on Ars, most are actually thinking the two country are at war, so they can do anything to each other I don’t think we are at war, but if enough people believe that way, does it matter?
- aprilthird2021 3y agoDistributing propaganda in the US, even as a foreign country, is allowed by the 1st Amendment. Americans have a right to receive information. This bill is trying to stop something Americans have a right to