The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet

Re:The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet by shenman on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:21AM (#35338886)

Is that a red herring?

The contention here is that one country does not allow the other to do business in their territory, yet complains when their product is threatened with a ban.

The contention is _not_ that double standards are being applied to TikTok vis-a-vis FB/Twitter.

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Re:The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet by evandijk70 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:52AM (#35341087)

Censorship is bad. Two wrongs don't make a right. I don't see why banning Facebook in China makes banning TikTok in the US good. It's like saying:

White people are discriminated against in China, so we should discriminate against Chinese people in the US.

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Re:The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet by staticman2 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:39AM (#35341864)

I'm not sure if banning foreign businesses is "censorship".

But if you insist on calling money "speech" and banning foreign businesses "censorship" then it turns out, under your very broad definitions, censorship is sometimes a very good thing!

Your argument amounts to word games.

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Re:The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet by himinlomax on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:57AM (#35342127)

TikTok is not being banned because of what they say, they're being banned for what they are. Ergo it's not censorship.

Same thing when RT was banned across Western Europe. It's not what they were saying that was banned, it's what they are: an arm of the Russian government. Russian shills are still free to peddle their propaganda.

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Re:The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet by flappyeagle on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:18PM (#35348021)

Sometimes two wrongs don't make a right. Sometimes you fight fire with fire. We can all pull aphorisms out of our butts to support our side of the argument.

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