One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine

Re:One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine by tommiegannert on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:01AM (#30918401)

You don't even have to go that far to shoot down GP's argument. The blogs can be censored just like TikTok, as long as ISPs are incorporated in local states. Whether censorship happens by telling TikTok the rules, or telling the ISPs the rules seems inconsequential to the democritized availability of information.

Starlink et al. have a unique possibility of being state-agnostic and even leave citizens room for plausible deniability. (The next problem is how Starlink is payed in a way that states can't block, but it seems people are working on that...)

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Re:One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine by Jcowell on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:51AM (#30920537)

Wouldn’t Starlink just be beholden to the US government and it’s laws ?

As I see it no corporation can be state agnostic unless you want a corporation more powerful then states themselves and you don’t want that either because a corporation is not beholden to the people.

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Re:One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine by trasz on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:11AM (#30918517)

Perhaps there could be a charity making payments for those who legally can't.

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