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No one who actually uses it or understands it wants this. This is like vegans banning steak.
by tills13 2y ago
No one who actually uses it or understands it wants this. This is like vegans banning steak.
- doctorpangloss 2y agoYou're getting it. It is like vegans banning steak! > "lower primate improv troupe" > "No one who actually uses it or understands it wants this." "Everyone's generalizations are stupid, except mine."
- loeg 2y agoIt's like the non-addicts banning heroin. You don't have to be a Tik Tok user to understand that it's bad for it to be PRC-controlled!
- dvngnt_ 2y agoyeah because they wont censor gaza information
- kjkjadksj 2y agoThat is a fine take, but the assumption that all other forms of media masses of people are exposed to aren’t also propaganda is a foolish one to make. We have an entire advertising industry in this country. Something like $300 billion in ad spend a year in the US. Ad spend is literally propaganda lest we forget.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y ago> aren’t also propaganda It's not that other propaganda doesn't exist, it's that a likely intended effect of Chinese propaganda is destabilization and/or delegitimization of hostile governments. Ad spend is more about destabilizing consumers' savings.
- rsanek 2y agoI don't think that people are arguing that. What kind of propaganda one is exposed to matters.
- amrocha 2y agoWhy is it bad when China (supposedly) creates propaganda on tiktok but it’s good when the US creates propaganda on facebook? You’re not a government, you’re a person. Either way you’re being manipulated, and the US government definitely doesn’t have your best interests in mind.
- corimaith 2y agoBecause we live in a world of Sovereign States, where the point of discrimination very much is between Citizen and Non-Citizen? You free to renounce your citizenship and live without the Protections of the Government, there are many who would be quite happy with that to take your wealth freely then :) The only people thinking in such a arrogantly privileged manner ironically are Westerners, try saying this crap in China or India and people will laugh at you all day. Or I doubt this poster has the best interests of Americans in mind either.
- amrocha 2y agoDo I have to adopt the government line of the country I was born in if I want to maintain citizenship? Am I not allowed to think for myself? How exactly is that different from a dictatorship?
- qvrjuec 2y agoIs this a serious question? China has its best interests in mind, the US government has its best interests in mind. Which one of those two adversaries are more likely to align with your interests?
- mileycyrusXOXO 2y agoI'd rather be able to choose to consume propaganda than for than the government to be able to decide what I should and should not consume.