Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was...
by thephyber on Monday July 13, 2020 @06:11PM
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You completely missed the point of what I was saying.
The US government should not ban me from choosing to use a crappy entertainment app. Yes, I realize that an app which is owned by a Chinese company who stores its servers and data in China is governed by Chinese laws.
> what is wrong with you guys that you are supporting a totalitarian government?
I'm not. I'm just saying that anything short of a blanket ban on an entertainment product is not tantamount to "supporting a totalitarian government". You are missing all of the shades of gray. You can't post to HackerNews without using {a phone, a computer, and internet connection, etc} which provided revenue to a company in China, which according to your logic "supports the totalitarian government".
Also there is a philosophy called accelerationism[1] which is the inverse of what you propose, but which may get to the end point (freedom from the CCP) faster than your proposed solution.
The US government should not ban me from choosing to use a crappy entertainment app. Yes, I realize that an app which is owned by a Chinese company who stores its servers and data in China is governed by Chinese laws.
> what is wrong with you guys that you are supporting a totalitarian government?
I'm not. I'm just saying that anything short of a blanket ban on an entertainment product is not tantamount to "supporting a totalitarian government". You are missing all of the shades of gray. You can't post to HackerNews without using {a phone, a computer, and internet connection, etc} which provided revenue to a company in China, which according to your logic "supports the totalitarian government".
Also there is a philosophy called accelerationism[1] which is the inverse of what you propose, but which may get to the end point (freedom from the CCP) faster than your proposed solution.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism