Re:TikTok ban bill in US faces changes after ByteDance spent...
by nocsi on Thursday July 13, 2023 @02:59PM
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Have some perspective. The US used to solve things by outright evicting Chinese workers or interning Japanese. If the solution to stem foreign influence and manipulation is to throttle/ban an app that platforms crazies - then I must say that the US has grown a lot as a country. Also as a side note, your right to free speech is not really protected when it comes to private companies. US citizens should have a right to say whatever they want, but not everyone should have an a platform to build an audience. Very divisive people are having their reach disproportionately magnified to divide people
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Re:TikTok ban bill in US faces changes after ByteDance spent...
by rileymat2 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:14PM
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The perspective I get from those two examples is that we do things that embarrass us later, so we should be /more/ aware and hesitant in the present, not pat ourselves on the back for improving.