> Why are the Hacker News comments on this so different than when this topic came up a few years ago? * Tiktok competes with FAANGM (MMANGA?) type companies, w

> Why are the Hacker News comments on this so different than when this topic came up a few years ago? * Tiktok competes with FAANGM (MMANGA?) type companies, which happen to be heavily represented here, and those people may have pointed thoughts * apropos of FAANGMs, China recently banned or set strict rules for FAANGM companies in China. If they're not going to play nice + make dubious demands, why shouldn't the US behave similarly? * GPT is a thing... and was then, too. all available bot power may be focused on elections / Trump trials / Israel / Ukraine / etc., when it wasn't before, and rapid changes to viewpoints may reflect that; the 50 Cent Party has bigger fights to pick, etc. * sort of a corollary to the above, it's an election year, a big one in several ways, and that drives the (real, human) commenters out in droves