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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by thrownaway954 on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:03PM (#24012514)
"Imagine China subtly promoting videos to create outrage and civil unrest in the US, or to feed anti-US propaganda to germinate terrorist groups in the US."

our president is doing a fine job of that now with his twitter account.

Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by altaria on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:18PM (#24012721)
Or, you know, our mainstream media exclusively broadcasting videos without contextualization of white police officers killing black men to the country and ignoring all other racial configurations of violence in order to stoke racial tension.
Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by bagacrap on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:05PM (#24022577)
and according to many, his election was partially a result of foreign tampering
Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by pageandrew on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:07PM (#24012595)
Right, but we have the ability to vote him out of office. We don't have the same oversight of the content the Chinese Communist Party wants to put in the minds of young Americans, besides banning the app.