Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users

dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Neato@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Capitalism abusing citizens? Just fine.

  “Communism” abusing citizens? Avengers, assemble!

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re prospective communists. Supposedly they’re going to get there by by 2050, but they just built a new massive luxury tower for their ultra wealthy so…

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s just like Marx said: “If you do an oppressive oligarchy for 100 years, it magically transforms into communism”

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      • beardown@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If that were true then the United States would have been communist by now

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think they’re more worried that it’s a foreign corporation going after their citizens and not a domestic corporation.

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  • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    More of a capitalistic dictatorship

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• boatswain@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, the domestic businesses are the ones who own Congress and are using it to get rid of a competitor.

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  • kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    After the thousands of years of human history I’ve read about, getting rid of competitors seems to have been the primary concern of most of the ruling classes all over the world. Way back to Ur.

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    • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Rulers don’t play fair, because power corrupts.

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• krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While you’re not wrong about double standards, anything that discourages the use of vapid social media platforms is a win in my book. Use whatever backwards logic you like to make it happen so long as it’s effective.

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  • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well this goes into the direction of social media monopoly so I’m not sure

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  • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He says, on a social media platform

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    • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lemmy is a message board, not social media. Like fark or something awful.

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      • webadict@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Users create and/or share content, check. Users discuss content, check.

        Unless you think something is missing from that definition, Lemmy is social media. It is pseudonymous, but it is still social because of the users.

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      • SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is social media, just because your talking anonymously doesn’t mean you aren’t interacting socially. Jesus Christ your talking to people. Right now. Your being social media’d. Stop acting like your above it.

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      • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My tiktok account is also anonymous.

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      • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bruh.

        forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

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• Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As soon as the foreign businesses get better at harvesting data than the domestic ones, of course.

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