a) the Chinese goverment is right
The Chinese government is right in the sense that drug cartels generally avoid getting too high on their own supply.
Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
by stametseater on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:42PM
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> "Only if you think the Chinese goverment is right"
Germany dropped bombs on the UK. The UK responded by dropping bombs on Germany. By responding in kind, was the UK therefore asserting that Germany was 'right' to drop bombs on the UK?
You're taking my statement out of context. I was refuting the claim that China's restrictive social media policy is a justification for a similar US policy.
If the UK justified their actions solely on the basis that because the Germans did it it must be ok that'd be unreasonable. (This isn't the right forum to get into it, but the ethics of civilian saturation bombings are much more complicated and I'm not saying either was in the right, though of course in total Germany was far far worse).
Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
by stametseater on Thursday March 30, 2023 @08:36AM
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Tit for tat is how wars are fought, not by finding a moral high ground. Like it or not, we are in a economic and information war with China. Bury your head in the sand if you want to lose it.
a) the Chinese goverment is right
and b) TikTok is notably worse than American social media.
I, for example, disagree with both. I think the Chinese government is wrong about a lot of things, including the right way to raise kids. And I think TikTok is no worse than Instagram.