TikTok ban bill in US faces changes after ByteDance spent $100M on lobbying

Re:TikTok ban bill in US faces changes after ByteDance spent... by mark_l_watson on Thursday July 13, 2023 @01:27PM (#36712832)

I 90% agree with you. I do however think that TikTok deliberately shows anti-US cultural stuff.

My thinking is probably is not logical on this, rather emotional: I like quality news organizations like Democracy Now sometimes taking a hard look at US foreign policy, etc. (and for years I have given them monthly donations because it is difficult to find good news sources). It feels good to praise my country when it deserves praise and criticize its behavior when it deserves it.

I don’t like a foreign government like China attacking our culture. My analogy: we can criticize the behavior of our children who we love, but no one else can.

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Re:TikTok ban bill in US faces changes after ByteDance spent... by zmgsabst on Thursday July 13, 2023 @01:38PM (#36713029)

China is doing what the US does:

Promoting divisive content (eg, “critical theories”) that foment divided societies based on grievance narratives — cloaking that anti-social behavior under benevolent guises (eg, calling rebuilding institutional racism “equity”).

Given that we’ve watched those grievance narratives trigger widespread violence and arson before an election and a permanent state of racialized looting, I think the US is beyond the point of fixing this with such mild measures. (And TikTok is hardly the only problem.)

And the US hypocritically screams about how even forcing us to disclose our NGOs is “anti-democratic” (eg, in Georgia).

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