POV: It's January 19th
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
Oh yeah, I forgot the other social media apps don't collect data and spew propaganda. Oh wait... They do.
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Of all the social media popular in the US, only one of them is doing that tracking and is under the thumb of a foreign adversary. That is specifically the line drawn in the law. I'm actually curious if WeChat shouldn't fall under it too?
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Yeah but only for the benevolent western ultra rich oligarchs, so it's gucci.
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[email protected]replied to Count Regal Inkwell last edited by
Americans are so fucking stupid oh my god
Coming from someone who confidently believed a law that didn't exist was in effect, these words are a bit flat.
Better words would be "people in general are so fucking stupid", and you are not immune to that.
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Democracy is the worst form of government...
Except for all other forms.
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He wrote "it's not a democracy, it's a republic" originally.
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If he meant "this system isn't democratic enough", hard agree. It sounded like the "the founders wanted a republic and we should stop trying to be a democracy" you hear from MAGAs.
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Know what the other “tell” is? They write a wall of text. Big thick paragraphs. It’s a thing, start looking for it.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
Why are you mad at the truth? We've known for over a decade that Facebook steals your data and listens to your conversations...
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
Well, the founders wanted an oligarchy, and we have an oligarchy...
The first step to fixing the problem, is admitting we have a problem: The US was never intended to be a democracy for anyone except oligarchs, and it's still not a democracy for anyone but oligarchs.
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They could but they haven’t, so this ban is just racist economic protectionism.
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whataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhatabout tho?
(For anyone reading this in the future: they made that edit addressing "responder-guys" when the comment had only one reply lol
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When a person says the US is a republic, not a democracy, I take it as them defining "democracy" as a "pure democracy" only, despite the fact that there are other kinds, such as republics.
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Its just another troll. You give them labels like tankie but they are just trolls.
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Who? People with a lot to say?
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
And "Israel" fell right into their trap by...committing genocide.
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& when you call them out they want to lead you down this endless response chain. You wonder if they get bonuses for it
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nice try sweetcheeks but as predicted, a second came
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If they were legitimately only banned for “tracking the location in the US and gathering large amounts of data”, then just about every single social media service would be under investigation for the same reason.
We aren't talking about TikTok simply gathering the information though, are we?
But yes, absolutely. Let's do it. And we know that: just because the other companies aren't being investigated/regulated in the same way, does not mean that it shouldn't happen at all. That's not how it works.
Also, you are making a fallacious argument yourself... If we were talking about banning US social media sites in China, then the comparison holds (and even then, it's not 1:1 given the political structure of the CCP vs. that of the US). Otherwise, TikTok is clearly unique among them in that the Chinese Government ostensibly has access to any and all information that is being collected.
