Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by seanmcdirmid on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:39PM
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Ok, Murdoch’s Australian citizenship would be seen as benign, unless you are going to tell me that Australians are as dangerous as Murdoch in general?
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by vkou on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:22PM
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They are about as dangerous as Chinese Americans, which is to say, not at all.
Particular people are problematic. But you can only judge that by actions, not by their country of birth.
Which is what makes this foreign manipulation rhetoric and ban rubbish. It refuses to identify what the bad actions it's trying to protect us from are, it's just a lazy, prejudiced rubric that gives the most egregious ones a free pass, because they have the right color stripes on their pin.
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by seanmcdirmid on Monday January 20, 2025 @11:52PM
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I already mentioned that dual citizenship isn’t possible for Chinese. There is no person over 18 that holds Chinese and American citizenship, but you keep somehow ignoring that. Any Chinese can get American citizenship, get rid of Chinese citizenship, and buy a tv station in the states, the process is straightforward, and they won’t deny you because your ethnicity is Han or Hui or whatever.
Speaking of hostile foreigners, a prominent South African was just giving the crowd a few Nazi salutes at the inauguration. Is that also benign? At what exact point do we start observing that the enemies to democracy are inside the house?