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

• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Mr. Legislator I am 84 and I need my Heroin but the federal government keeps cracking down on my supplier, please stop taking away all my Heroin Mr. Legislator. Also, force my bank to let me transfer 85,000 USD to India, it’s really important that I do that before the 27th.”

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  • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. This is called Nanny State.

    Rather than educate the populace, take away the tools. Of course, another tool will just rise to the surface but it will make a lot of people feel really good that they did something.

    I do appreciate all of the reactionary statements. I don’t use TikTok but I do believe in freedom. Reducing freedoms, no matter how well intentioned does not solve societies problems.

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can’t educate dementia away. You can educate youth away, but that takes years, which would effectively be a ban for them. TikTok is not a tool for its users, it is a tool for a for profit corporation and by extension their associated foreign dictatorship.

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      • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        TikTok is not a tool for its users, it is a tool for a for profit corporation

        That pretty much describes every corporation in existence.

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      • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        TikTok is one of hundreds of vectors to swindle the senile and I doubt it’s even in the top 10.

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