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Indeed - if the US is this afraid of a popular social network under foreign control then every country outside the US should be petrified. And domestically in
by DrScientist 2y ago
Indeed - if the US is this afraid of a popular social network under foreign control then every country outside the US should be petrified.
And domestically in the US - citizens should be demanding the dismantling of the big powerful players - which ironically the US government is against because of it's usefulness abroad..... ( let's assume for one moment, despite evidence to the contrary, that the US government doesn't use these tools of persuasion on it's own population ).
- mbrumlow 2y ago> if the US is this afraid of a popular social network under foreign control then every country outside the US should be petrified. They are and have been.
- alonsonic 2y agoThis is exactly why China controls the internet and any company with a presence there.
- realusername 2y agoI have no horses in the race but if you justify a Tiktok ban in the US because of a foreign influence, you also do justify a Facebook ban in the EU on the same arguments.
- mplanchard 2y agoThus why Facebook is blocked in China, but not in the EU, since we have a much less adversarial relationship with them.
- realusername 2y agoI'm not sure how long it will last with Zukerberg and Musk openly threatening the EU.
- mplanchard 2y agoInterestingly, just saw this in my RSS feed: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/european-union-orders-x-to-hand-over-algorithm-documents/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/european-union-o...