Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Trump Signals Opposition

Re:Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Tr... by scarface74 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @06:29PM (#24024458)

I keep hearing this mostly from the conservative side when Trump got elected mostly by bypassing traditional media and using Twitter and social media.

What do you propose? More government involvement to tell tech what they can do on their own platform? Isn’t it kind of hypocritical that the anti regulation party wants regulation when it suits them?

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Re:Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Tr... by saagarjha on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:37PM (#24025258)

Corporate censorship bites both ways; see Apple's reluctance to approve HKmap.live for its platform.

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Re:Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Tr... by scarface74 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @11:25PM (#24026085)

What exactly does that have to do with US policies?

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Re:Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Tr... by saagarjha on Saturday August 01, 2020 @11:29PM (#24026103)

Nothing, that's the point. Censorship is not a "US conservative complaint", it's a problem independent of nationalities or political parties.

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