• WamGams@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    People acting more terrified at the loss of tik tok from their lives than they did during covid, while losing people from their lives.

    Tik tok might as well just change their name to empathy box, because they have convinced their users that the act of watching content on empathy box makes them more moral and politically aware than the rest of us.

    At the end of the day, we have to be nervous when a foreign nation has content reach to 80℅ of Americans. This foreign nation is banning Americans from accusing it of genocide while allowing an economic incentive for Americans to accuse themselves and everybody else of doing it.

    Deep down, every one of us knows tik tok is a power nobody can or should be trusted with.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    They don’t actually want to get rid of tiktok. They just want it to be owned by a consortium of American billionaires so they can influence public policy more easily.

    • Hathaway@lemmy.zip
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      8 months ago

      Part of me would rather have it with capitalistic sociopaths that want to extract my money rather than an authoritarian government that is provably responsible for (multiple?) genocide(s). Like, in a perfect world, there’s a better system, but at least our government still, in theory, can control the businesses within our country. They won’t though.