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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by temporalparts on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:31PM (#24022286)
I wouldn't call it petty; these platforms control access to information and there's a huge ideological (figurative) battle between the US and China.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by dalbasal on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:36PM (#24022334)
Access to information is a euphemistic way of putting it. Another way of putting it would be control over the delivery of information...

It's all getting very Orwellian.

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