Please don't take HN threads onto flamewar tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> The CCP subsidizing a social media platform hurts no one.

It hurts everybody (especially children) influenced by the censoring peddled by the CCP.

American social media censors in tons of ways that harm our children too. Is your outrage properly calibrated here?

I'm not American so yes, both can be wrong at the same time.

The CCP is just the worst of the two evils.

The favoured retort of the pro CCP group is American imperialism. No doubt, I agree it is no longer in America's best interest to defend foreign nations and to meddle internationally.

However, that does not excuse your ignorance. A totalitarian regime that has caused more death than any other regime in history; one that primarily values wealth over freedom; one that does not believe in the sanctity of human life (ie Uighurs) is not fit to be influencing global culture.

Moreover, I agree American foreign imperialism has caused awful things to happen, but one thing no one ever realizes: this is the only time in human history that the world has had a monopole aka one dominant super power by far. Usually the world is bipolar or multipolar. Yet the last 70 years has yielded the fewest deaths from war as a percent of the global population in history. Should America be upset with its past? Sure. However, if China had been the global monopole for the last 70 years I do not believe the total death toll from war would be so low. thanks for ur opinion

I agree both are bad. I just believe most would prefer the evil that primarily stays within its own borders to the one that constantly wreaks destruction abroad.

"The CCP subsidizing a social media platform hurts no one. "

only idiots believe this. tiktok can be an extension of the ccp propaganda grand scheme.