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If you're going to tamper with US elections, you should at least have to spend USD to do so?
by __MatrixMan__ 1y ago
If you're going to tamper with US elections, you should at least have to spend USD to do so?
- _heimdall 1y agoSo are you saying that the free speech issue related to a TikTok ban is based only on what currency is used?
- __MatrixMan__ 1y agoI apologize for not addressing your comment directly. The free speech issue related to a TikTok ban has to do with limiting the audiences that Americans are allowed to engage with. It's not about what they might say, but about what they might hear. The message it sends is: > You're allowed whatever speech you want, so long as we have influence over the speakers and microphones that you use to do so. That's going to have a chilling effect on what actually gets said. I was using "using USD" as a stand-in for "using platforms run by people we can reliably bully into tampering with your speech if it becomes problematic," and also to suggest a bit of corruption on the side, which seems likely given that Zuckerberg and Trump are now buddies.
- _heimdall 1y agoI don't like the ban, or the fact that the "TikTok bill" ended up granting broad new powers to the executive branch. I just read it a bit differently with regards to free speech. When it comes to limiting the audience we can engage with, that would require a ban on talking to specific people rather than on a specific platform. Anyone that I may have engaged with on TikTok can still be engaged with on other platforms. The fact that many of the biggest social media platforms are based in the US and that we saw clear evidence of both the US government's and the plstforms' willingness to collude is a huge problem. To me that's a separate issue than the TikTok ban, though they are in the same arena I suppose.