Comment on Amazon wants to buy TikTok
taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoAnd you think nobody outside of the US is interested in preventing the US from having a total propaganda stranglehold on their own population?
Comment on Amazon wants to buy TikTok
taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoAnd you think nobody outside of the US is interested in preventing the US from having a total propaganda stranglehold on their own population?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
How would you prevent that? The US can ban just ban Tiktok anytime and gain that prop stranglehold.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
But that would be a very unpopular move that might even be counter-productive while selling them Tiktok would just be handing them everything they want on a silver platter.
ActuallyGoingCrazy@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Do you think the current administration gives a shit if a move is unpopular? That’s their whole shtick.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The current administration is the one keeping TikTok alive in the USA. Trump has delayed the ban twice now.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
The ban already happened. There was nothing massively unpopular about it. And whoever lets the exemption lapse doesn’t have to take the heat for it, since they can just blame it on Biden.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
It was massively unpopular among the relevant demographic, the Tiktok user. Those are the ones you would want to reach obviously.