Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by konschubert on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:05PM
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And if you have free speech without exceptions, foreign actors will see it as a weakness and use it to brain rot your society.
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Yeah, the government loves to be the only one that can brain rot their (loved that you used the possessive pronoun!) society.
When did the US citizens become so subservient to their government? I thought distrusting the government was American tradition?
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by konschubert on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:20PM
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I think we as Europeans would do better if we actually defended against Russia's hybrid warfare.
I understand all these principled stances and I do support them ethically, but sometimes you have no choice but to choose the lesser evil.
> When did the US citizens become so subservient to their government?
Technically speaking, they did in 1789. As to the practicality of it, the US government expanded massively from 1900-1950, so maybe during that time period. The FCC was formed in 1972, so on the issue of permissible purveyors of brain rot, maybe then.
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by konschubert on Monday January 20, 2025 @12:34PM
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Btw, I used “you” as a reference to the sovereign democracy society, not the government.