POV: It's January 19th

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There very much is difference between cruelty and torture, same as with 1st and 3rd degree burns and denying that is awful.

The native Americans are not being genocided today, Uygurs are. I don't know about you, but I cannot change the past.

The US track record is by no means clean, but miles away from the likes of China, specially in recent years. And you should be able to criticize both (or more) without whataboutism.

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How about disprove just one thing?

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I don't have to. It's a shitty source that's making extraordinary claims, so it's on them to provide the extraordinary proof.

I could make any number of bullshit claims, like, say, Nazis built a moon base shortly before the end of WWII, and the inability of the allies to find Hitler's body proves that he didn't commit suicide in a bunker in Berlin, and you would quite rightly insist that I give you a lot of solid evidence. The article does none of that.

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Companies should not be free. Only people should be free. Companies exist to do what we want them too.

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Citizens should be free to choose which social media platforms there wish to use.

Companies are not free, which is why they must operate within the regulations and laws that protect consumers and the nation as a whole.

Banning TikTok only violates the freedom of citizens and does nothing to protect consumers or the nation. Your argument makes zero sense in this context.

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Did you actually read it? There’s links throughout.

How is them pointing out the work history of the government staff installed on this an “extraordinary claim”?

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And yet if a company is poisoning peoples minds they should be stopped from using it.

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Okay, so shut down twitter, Facebook, Fox News, rebel News, etc. Oh, what's that? You only want to shut down platforms that you disagree with? So "poisoning minds" was just a false projection.

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I dont disagree with tiktok in a political sense, I mean the addictive algorithm.

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Got no more retort? Did you change your mind or just decide to stop thinking about it to save your precious idea of your country.

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You act like citizens are being handed crack cocaine.

It's just videos. If you don't believe in people having free will to watch videos on the Internet, you don't believe in freedom.

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Still responding 3 days later, my comments must have cut deep lol. I replied to PyroNeurosis cause I actually cared for their reply, and then moved on to other discussions on this platform more meaningful than your retorts.

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People do sure like to avoid information that proves them wrong. I like making sure that they don't forget.

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No I didn’t.

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The fact that someone has worked for the gov't in the past does not prove in any way, shape, or form, that a particular company is controlled by the gov't. My ex-spouse used to work for the US State Dept, and now is an accountant at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd; does that mean that Deloitte is a US gov't asset? I have an uncle that was in the diplomatic corps, and now owns his own business; is his business directly controlled by the US gov't too?

Roughly 3M people are directly employed by the US fed. gov't at any given time, in a national of roughly 345M people. So no, it's not that unexpected that someone with high level management experience would also end up working as a high-level manager at corporation after they left gov't service. (And why would someone leave the gov't? Because when you compare pay rates for comparable levels of responsibility, the gov't always comes out far behind.)

This is basic media literacy stuff.

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You lack a basic understanding of how the revolving door works to progress digital censorship. And we’re not talking about just any government position- these are spooks.

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...Right. And your evidence in these cases, aside from allegations is...?