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Just because some other country suppresses what content their citizens see doesn't mean we should too. I think it's pretty clear that the establishment doesn't
by NegativeLatency 2y ago
Just because some other country suppresses what content their citizens see doesn't mean we should too.
I think it's pretty clear that the establishment doesn't like the content on tiktok and that's a large reason for the ban.
- duxup 2y agoMy basis is simply a tit for tat trade situation. Roughly the same situation for Chinese social media companies as they would apply to American in China. Content is really unrelated.
- NegativeLatency 2y agoI think from a trade perspective that makes a lot more sense. The part that's hard for me to ignore is the fairly overt statements from reps that they don't like the content: https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1782920301052911713 https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1782920301052911713 It's possible for something to be providing valuable news and perspective and also be controlled/manipulated by an adversary. Sorta like a broken clock being right twice a day.
- duxup 2y agoYeah I don't think those reps would like much of the internet if they ventured outside wherever they usually go. But they're also your typical bombastic / silly statements where they're throwing anything at public that sticks.
- falleng0d 2y agoThis is not about suppressing content. ByteDance will be able to sell the company and even profit from it.
- danieltanfh95 2y agoThey wont be able to, because their main product, the AI model and algorithms, are trained on Chinese citizen data, thus marking it as non-exportable. This is already well known, which is why the bill states to divest instead of outright ban just to play pedantry. Tiktok has announced that they will take it up to the courts and leave the US in the meantime.