Comment by BugsJustFindMe

Comment by BugsJustFindMe 3 months ago

8 replies

Only the control by a foreign adversary part is being threatened in the US, not the algorithmic opium part twisting the minds of the population. They're two different things. The US so far has no qualms with it if an American is in control of the strings. That's where China differs.

JumpCrisscross 3 months ago

> The US so far has no qualms with it if an American is in control of the strings. That's where China differs

Legally, there is no issue with TikTok being Japanese, Korean, Indian, Saudi, Polish, Ugandan, Brazilian or Mexican. Just not owned by a foreign adversary country.

  • BugsJustFindMe 3 months ago

    Yes, thank you. I've updated the earlier sentence from "foreign control" to "control by a foreign adversary". It's indeed the fact that China is a geopolitical enemy-to-be that's the problem.

    • ryandrake 3 months ago

      But, they're also something like our third biggest trading partner. China is like a Schroedinger's Adversary: Simultaneously an adversary and a friend, until you ask a politician and the wave function collapses and he picks one.

  • dpkirchner 3 months ago

    Don't fool yourself or fall for the propaganda: China is hardly an adversary -- just look at how much money we send them and how many goods they send us. If they were truly an adversary we'd be treating them like we do Russia.

    • JumpCrisscross 3 months ago

      > If they were truly an adversary we'd be treating them like we do Russia

      As you said, we trade with them extensively. We didn’t tighten the screws on Russia until it actually invaded Ukraine. Until Xi actually invades Taiwan, it’s profitable to pretend.

    • daedrdev 3 months ago

      Chinese ships LITERALLY just cut 3 undersea cables in US allied countries to mess with us.

      • dpkirchner 3 months ago

        Oh maybe we should do something about that and actually treat them like an adversary.