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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by DrScientist on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:43AM (#42738814)
Indeed - if the US is this afraid of a popular social network under foreign control then every country outside the US should be petrified.

And domestically in the US - citizens should be demanding the dismantling of the big powerful players - which ironically the US government is against because of it's usefulness abroad..... ( let's assume for one moment, despite evidence to the contrary, that the US government doesn't use these tools of persuasion on it's own population ).

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by mbrumlow on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:45AM (#42738867)
> if the US is this afraid of a popular social network under foreign control then every country outside the US should be petrified.

They are and have been.

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by alonsonic on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:52AM (#42739011)
This is exactly why China controls the internet and any company with a presence there.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by realusername on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:08AM (#42739334)
I have no horses in the race but if you justify a Tiktok ban in the US because of a foreign influence, you also do justify a Facebook ban in the EU on the same arguments.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by mplanchard on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:27AM (#42739721)
Thus why Facebook is blocked in China, but not in the EU, since we have a much less adversarial relationship with them.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by realusername on Friday January 17, 2025 @12:05PM (#42740412)
I'm not sure how long it will last with Zukerberg and Musk openly threatening the EU.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by mplanchard on Friday January 17, 2025 @12:22PM (#42740700)
Interestingly, just saw this in my RSS feed: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/european-union-o...
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