Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by wildrhythms on Sunday January 19, 2025 @08:02AM
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Rest assured agencies in the U.S. can (and do) do all of that and more to U.S. Google today with a simple warrant or takedown notice.
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US is liberal democracy China is not and how much information is censored on Google.com if any? And did US government use Google to target individuals or ethnic groups within US?
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by wildrhythms on Sunday January 19, 2025 @08:51AM
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>how much information is censored on Google.com if any?
Is this a serious question? Google removes all sorts of content from its index.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#:~:text=G....
Majority of those removals are safety removals not ideological censorship based on some socialist or whatever ideology.
No its “intellectual property” “protection” based on some capitalist or whatever ideology
Same thing, different beneficiaries in power
Ok so US doesn't want "socialist" influence in US and China doesn't want "capitalistic" influence in China. Eye for an eye. Problem solved.
> with a simple warrant
See the difference?
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by wildrhythms on Sunday January 19, 2025 @08:49AM
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You are putting a lot of faith in the police and judges that issue those things.
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by thoroughburro on Sunday January 19, 2025 @08:57AM
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Just a little bit more than my faith in “no oversight whatsoever”, yes.
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by wildrhythms on Sunday January 19, 2025 @09:07AM
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A pro-cop 'hacker', lol very interesting stuff.
and there is no transparency needed, warrants don't have to be public in most countries.
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Americans have way more faith in America being the good guys than is warranted.