flying_sheep

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, as we all know, family, friends, and poverty doesn’t exist. So everyone is either complicit or will immediately move to whatever perfect country you think exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re calling me a vassal, you dork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So “ig” means “inhabitant”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF are you calling me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m from the EU, where there’s laws in place for some industries to put EU user data exclusively on servers that are in the EU. I’m assuming that the US doesn’t have that kind of law applying to TikTok, and that the US servers are an infrastructure decision by Tiktok’s owner company. If I’m right, then that’s your answer. If I’m wrong then they really don’t need to ban them.

  For the record, please keep in mind that I’m not defending any party here. I’m very aware of post cold war yellow/red scare stories, I just don’t see how this inevitably has to be the consequence of one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is it racist if you want to reduce the number of governments spying on you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They already have control over Xitter and Facebook/Instagram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Europe recently forced the matter, but I think you can’t in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why you draw parallels here. The reactionaries are against veneer-of-spooky pieces of media because of moral outrage bullshit. Media literacy is a thing. Nobody is going to believe in dragons or Satan.

  The US government is against big China-controlled media platforms with loads of US users because platforms can control which kind of content users see. You can exert a lot of control over people if you show them only one point of view.

  I think the US has enough of a problem with home grown radicalized conspiracy nuts, but banning a China owned TikTok is still a very different move than banning D&D would have been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Rick and Morty’ Season 8 Coming in 2025, Anime Series Reveals New Footage⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. There were some excellent episodes and some meh ones like usual, but I feel that there were also more than one disappointing ones for the first time.