Comment by iambateman

Comment by iambateman 10 hours ago

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I think there’s a lot of good reasons to ban TT…

It’s in American security interests to limit CCP’s access to American location data and ability to pipe propaganda into our eyeballs.

But setting the ban to go into effect one day before the next President takes office is brazenly political and undermines the actually-important problem that TikTok represents.

When Twitter got weird, Bluesky was ready to come in as a total clone and succeed. I’m sure there are a dozen companies ready to make their case that they should replace TT…it’ll be fine.

kevinventullo 10 hours ago

Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts are already trying to replace TT and failing. They really are nowhere near as good.

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samr71 8 hours ago

The argument to ban TikTok is for trade reciprocity reasons. Reels and Youtube Shorts are banned there, so we should ban TikTok here. Just like how if Germany banned Fords and Chevys from being sold, we should similarly ban VWs and Audis.

That they say this is for "National Security" gives the game away.

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spencerflem 10 hours ago

then limit selling location data.

every car app and toaster sells that stuff in the free market

propaganda is the point- or as importantly, the inability to hush or neuter 'anti-american' viewpoints

US govt has propaganda too: schools are now required to teach that "1,500,000,000 people suffer under communism"

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