Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo...
by gigatexal on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:22AM
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That a foreign nation with aims not aligned with the US has the dominant social network with the CAPABILITY to use this influence to influence the US, collect data, shape the minds of youths and future voters etc etc. that is enough for me.
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Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo...
by aprilthird2021 on Monday April 29, 2024 @11:19AM
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>the CAPABILITY to use this influence to influence the US
But this is communist era logic used in some countries to this day to ban "foreign" and "corrupting" materials. Forgive me if it smells like repression and tastes like repression, I think it is repression. Shaping the minds of youths is not the exclusive purview of the US political class. That's some 1984 logic...