Re:TikTok ban bill in US faces changes after ByteDance spent...
by ericmay on Thursday July 13, 2023 @01:10PM
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> All it takes is a president with radical views and an ineffective congress and you have a much more powerful censorship apparatus.
How so exactly w.r.t TikTok? And how do you know it's not already being censored or manipulated to show you content that makes you think it would be bad to ban TikTok? Of course this is anecdotal but I haven't come across very many people who use TikTok and support a ban, but I have come across many people who don't use TikTok and either don't care or do support a ban.
A much more interesting element here anyway is that Bytedance wasn't paying their dues to Republicans or Democrats via lobbying and so they're using this continued "threat" to get Bytedance to pony up like all the other tech companies. That's the actual dangerous thing here.
How so exactly w.r.t TikTok? And how do you know it's not already being censored or manipulated to show you content that makes you think it would be bad to ban TikTok? Of course this is anecdotal but I haven't come across very many people who use TikTok and support a ban, but I have come across many people who don't use TikTok and either don't care or do support a ban.
A much more interesting element here anyway is that Bytedance wasn't paying their dues to Republicans or Democrats via lobbying and so they're using this continued "threat" to get Bytedance to pony up like all the other tech companies. That's the actual dangerous thing here.