Cookingboy

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by Cookingboy 2y ago
>even though more targeted bans have been upheld as passing the relevant judicial tests for laws affecting First Amendment rights. Such as?
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
Except it is. The Supreme Court has actually ruled that the First Amendment rights for Americans to receive foreign propaganda, even during the Cold War: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/lamont-v-postmaster-...
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
There research is not credible because their only "evidence" is that when using certain keywords, Instagram and YT returned more "anti-China" content than TikTok. So instead of arguing the U.S. social media has an anti
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
There is no evidence whatsoever presented in that paid for NCRI study. In fact, the same result can be used to interpret as "strong traces of anti-China manipulation on American social medias".
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
>Ticktock content is curated to fit CCP’s narrative not simply an algorithmic reflection of what its users care about. If you can show evidence of that you should give it to the U.S. government, because it has repeatedly said there is no
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
>No speech or information is being suppressed; Except the whole reason for the TikTok bill is that information/speech will be under Chinese government control on TikTok and that can be weaponized. So make up your mind, if you say
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
>Deliberately misinforming people, especially under a foreign state payroll, is illegal. First of all if you have any evidence of TikTok engaging in it, you should present it since even our government have said there is no such evidence
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
Holy shit do you actually work for the U.S. State Department? Reuter reported this: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covi... U.S. social media absolutely are controlled by the U.S. governm
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
> Removing the platform entirely is not censorship. Especially when everyone will just shift to Instagram, Youtube etc. It is, because politicians voted for the bill have openly admitted the Israel-Gaza content is what pushed them to vot
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
>multitude of copy cat apps for their freedom of speech. Except they can't. All of the other apps are under U.S. government control and have engaged in severe censorship on certain topics such as the Israel-Gaza conflict. Even the p
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
>A better example would be that reciprocity would say that if China mistreated our civilians then we should mistreat theirs. Good example, and thank god that is unconstitutional. For example China can arrest American citizens in China wi
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
As far as net worth figure goes your health is the first significant digit, everything else come after.
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
> live in the countryside, or have not been to Japan for 10+ years. I lived in a suburb city near Nagoya from end of 2022 to beginning of 2024. It's not Tokyo, but definitely not an "inaka" either. We got our Aeon Malls an
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by Cookingboy 2y ago
People don't realize how technologically incompetent Japan is. Fax machines are still the norm for day to day business in most places, and online banking is seen as a cutting edge feature. Hell, until very recently most non-combini ATM
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by Cookingboy 3y ago
Your entire argument is based off the propagandized idea that "China is our mortal enemy". Should we cut off all tourism/business travel between China and the Wests? Cease all commercial activities? Declare war? Wait we shoul
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by Cookingboy 3y ago
This is why I think generative AI tech should either be banned or be completely open sourced. Mega tech corporations are plenty of things already, they don't need to be the morality police for our society too.
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by Cookingboy 3y ago
If that's true, then it's kinda gross tbh. What's their advice to Neumann this time? "I hope you are more discreet this time so your scam lasts long enough for us to exit"???
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by Cookingboy 3y ago
>China is very anti-Israel That's just completely false. China and Israel has always had a decently warm relationship, so much so Israel was selling weapons to China until the U.S. forced them to stop: https://en.wikipedi
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by Cookingboy 3y ago
Man I really wonder if anyone working at DJI ever imagined one day the internet would be filled with footages of Russian main battle tanks being blown up by the toys they built.
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by Cookingboy 3y ago
Dude you need to stop getting news from dedicated clickbait and propaganda YT channels...Those are embarrassing.
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by Cookingboy 3y ago
Gutter oil has been exceedingly rare in recent years in China due to extremely harsh crackdowns (literally death penalties were handed out). You will be fine these days in bigger cities. And it's funny that you suggested Taiwan, which
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by Cookingboy 3y ago
I mean there is also a big difference in the way people live in India and Switzerland, and both are democratic countries. Your examples are the result of economic disparity, not political systems. But if you compare India to China, one demo
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by Cookingboy 4y ago
Of course there are many reasons to not trust China, but it doesn't mean you don't need any shred of evidence to make up shit against them. Like...that's not how that works. And calling China "imperialist" is border
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by Cookingboy 4y ago
>knowing how effective lobbyist can be at manipulating our lawmakers. You mean like how Meta was lobbying for the ban on TikTok: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo... >How
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by Cookingboy 4y ago
Yeah, I'm not ok for us to start our own version of The Great Firewall just because China does it. China bans foreign news sites too. Should we ban news sites from all countries that's not U.S. allies?
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by Cookingboy 4y ago
>If Mark zuckerberg became a national securitu risk you can lock him up and tell him how naughty he has been. Can't do that with Xi. Lol FB was already proven to be a national security risk over and over again. See Russian influen
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by Cookingboy 4y ago
> At best, this is an extreme and short-sighted proposal. Political posturing, wasting time and attention while solving no real problem It helps Meta and Google, to gain back U.S. social media market share. Which is why Meta has been lob
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by Cookingboy 4y ago
It depends on context. A household of two earners working for big techs living in a $2M home in Bay Area is definitely comfortable, but by no means upper class. Most of their incomes are still from a W2 form and they still have to budget fo
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by Cookingboy 4y ago
>The number of emails I get from Amazon and Facebook is crazy. Well that's the thing, those recruiters will keep emailing you desperately until the morning of the layoffs are announced. Facebook's hiring freeze was so sudden th
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by Cookingboy 4y ago
I never made an argument for police state. It seems like you are unable to objectively evaluate policies and science apart from the people behind it. Even Nazi Germany has achieved a lot scientifically and they did a great job industrializi

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