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While I agree with your argument partially, I still find it ironic. It assumes that we must prevent public from accessing some thoughts/propoganda as they may
by blackoil 2y ago
While I agree with your argument partially, I still find it ironic.
It assumes that we must prevent public from accessing some thoughts/propoganda as they may not be able to make right decision themselves. This is rhyming with 1930s Germany or other authoritative regimes since then.
- wilg 2y agoyou can still access any thought you want due to our permissive free speech laws. you just cant run the app if you're china
- sodality2 2y ago“You can still access any thought you want due to our permissive free speech laws. You just can’t sell this book if you’re Ray Bradbury”
- wilg 2y agoanalogy completely misses the point which is that there is no impact on what anyone is allowed to say
- sodality2 2y agoThere is an impact on the TikTok’s app to display content to American users.
- wilg 2y agoyes exactly but not on any of tiktok's users to say what they want, which is 1000x more important than the rights of the PRC to tweak the algorithm and moderation however they like
- sodality2 2y agoIMO the right to use TikTok in the US is actually way more important than the “right” of users to post whatever they want on it. In the same way that FB can ban you for violating content policy, and the app store can ban you for whatever reason. These are all okay because they’re all the domain of that company/entity to police. The problem is when the government steps in and forces it. I don’t think what website I can use is the domain of the government.
- encoderer 2y ago[flagged]
- pjerem 2y agoWait what ?
- suraci 2y agoit's all about sex!
- blub 2y agoSocial media can’t sleep in beds or other places, it doesn’t have a body. Actually it’s more like preventing your wife to talk to other men, just in case. We know what the world thinks about these kinds of husbands…
- encoderer 2y agoSocial media doesn’t sleep anywhere but the ccp does and they are currently staying rent-free in the minds of millions of Americans.
- dang 2y agoPlease don't do this here.
- encoderer 2y agoDont do… what? Make a point? No profanity. No personal attacks. Just a metaphor for letting the ccp have free reign on our citizens What is the charge? A metaphor? A succulent Chinese metaphor???
- dang 2y agoPlease don't make your points in a flamey/provocative way, especially on divisive topics. I would have thought it was obvious that your GP comment was doing that. You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in other places too: for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754148, which was really abusive and the kind of thing we end up having to ban accounts for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." We've already had to ask you this kind of thing more than once in the past.
- enos_feedler 2y agoEven more ironic is that we have a government programming us with fears (just fears!) about what China _could_ do to justify some action they are taking. Literally running the playbook of entity they are trying to make us afraid of. Fucked up.
- wilg 2y agodoesn't have to be fears, can just be good security hygiene. and china's running a whole playbook too. welcome to geopolitics!
- enos_feedler 2y agoWhat if my own needs for security hygiene don’t line up with our governments?