Comment on What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok?
zante@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
The whole reason for aggression toward TikTok is because it cannot be controlled by governments outside china.
If you’re a government, you have to have some control of the media otherwise you won’t be in government for very long .
OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
I can go to China, buy a book full of propaganda, fly to the USA, and read it with no issue.
I can tune my radio to a shortwave broadcast from Mexico, and there’s not a damn thing the FCC will do to stop me.
I don’t even fucking like TikTok. It’s an amalgam of all the worst dark patterns developed by corporate social media. Of course, nobody in government gives a fuck when Zuck does the exact same thing. I think it really comes down to the fact that as a foreign company, ByteDance can’t play the same election fundraising games that American companies do.