POV: It's January 19th

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I'm not sure that's a bar you even clear, given the ice "detention centres" you set up domestically and places like abu ghraib or Gitmo you run on foreign soil. And as for criticising the government, what's the practical use if a felon and a billionaire can rig your election without any repercussions anyway?

"I can call trump a criminal online, that's freedom right there!"

"Will he actually be arrested?"

"Well no, but it feels good to say it"

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No I don't. I apologize. Lost a close family member a few days ago and I'm lashing out inappropriately

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..and completely avoid any and all Chinese products. Good thing their global influence isn't increasing constantly.

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I don't know who is this "you" person mentioned, but I'm thankfully not American and my country has done nothing of sorts.

Plus people are not tortured even in ice centers. Gitmo is another story, but those are war crimes, not genocide. I know, weird argument, but I like to be precise m

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Not to mention meta. They'll do all of the above and when they're done sell the data to the highest bidder.

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Please outline how your personal political opinions about china are going to affect the fact that you have a Chinese toaster. I'll wait.

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Foreign governments are supposed to buy information from American social media companies. Tik Tok cut out the middleman so they're getting banned.

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People aren't tortured with an iron maiden, but when you have conditions like under trump in 2020, and the suicide rate in ice detention jumped 11 times higher than the previous 10 year average, I don't think you can suggest ice detention is that far away from concentration camps.

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Disinformation.

TikTok has been under control of the State Dept for years, since TikTok transferred custody of US servers to Oracle. The ban is to force a sale to a US competitor, and decrease transparency on censorship activities, especially regarding Palestine and pro-communism material.

TikTok: Chinese “Trojan Horse” Is Run by State Department Officials

A MintPress News investigation has found that dozens of former officials from the State Department, CIA and FBI are working in key positions at TikTok and affecting the content that over one billion users see.

MintPress News (www.mintpressnews.com)

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They’re not hiding it. It’s not a “conspiracy” when it’s out the in the open.

Blinken blames social media for disrupting Israel’s narrative of war in Gaza

Secretary of state said social media allows history context to ‘get lost’

The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)

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I think it should be banned because of all the noisy cunts using it on public transport.

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It wasn't. There's zero proof of this currently.

The app is banned because congress can't control. They want you using the platforms where you can't become class or politically aware.

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How very "land of the free" of you

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Gross to see this kind of disinformation on Lemmy. Too bad freedom and open information lost in a major way. This will be a dark day in history. Nobody benefits except the genociders.

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The correct thing to do would be to

Yes the banning of TikTok is absolutely the wrong thing.

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You make a good point and then draw the wrong conclusion.

You hit the nail on the head with what they should be doing (broad industry regulations), but then you COMPLETELY missed the point you made. Congress is NOT banning TikTok because they collect too much data, they're banning it because it's TikTok and the "data" is just an excuse...otherwise they'd pass real data privacy laws.

Another platform will pop up over the next week if TikTok is banned. What they want is to sell TikTok to someone that will change the platform because it's too powerful. This isn't to push "government propaganda", but simply to change the algorithm to not be so good. They don't want you to gain class consciousness or have political discourse, they want you to be distracted with silly cat videos and memes...and maybe a side of culture war, but nothing else.

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You're right, Google controls what I see and pushes right wing propaganda to my phone. TikTok's algorithm actually works to serve me content based on my interests, and I have true political discussion and discourse there.

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Brother, that is still the laws on the books. Age does not matter. Do you really not understand that? Do you think laws expire? Did you choose to not understand? What's your deal? You live inside your own nightmare.

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Oh geez, well my condolences.

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Negligence (and even cruelty) is different from literal torture and (allegedly) extermination of an ethnic/religious group.

Also, gitmo holds hundreds of people, not hundreds of thousands.