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To rephrase my question: can you really not tell the difference to democratic health between Americans doing it and foreign adversaries doing it?
by redcobra762 2y ago
To rephrase my question: can you really not tell the difference to democratic health between Americans doing it and foreign adversaries doing it?
- anon84873628 2y agoTo rephrase my response: do you think this action will meaningfully improve democratic health?
- ramblenode 2y agoFor the most part I don't think there is a difference. It seems like once all the common factors of divisiveness and brainrot are removed, the main difference between TikTok and the others is that it would be harder for certain powers in the US government to corral TikTok into toeing the line on State Department foreign policy goals than western companies. Considering the largely homogenous, biased western media coverage of e.g. the lead up to the 2nd Iraq War, Patriot Act, US-Israel policy that has shaped American viewpoints, I don't think it is obvious why having a major non-aligned media source is a net negative.
- redcobra762 2y agoThere's no difference between the people who have to live under the regime they're changing and the people who seek its destruction? I can't take that argument seriously, sorry.
- mvc 2y agoJust for the record. Is Russia a foreign adversary of the USA as-of today?