Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
Clent@lemmy.world 6 months agoYes. 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.
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.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 months ago
That pretty much describes every corporation in existence.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Some of them provide utility and some don’t, which is why we don’t allow children to drink, smoke, or gamble. If a company providing those goods and services targets those demographics it gets political action.
Welcome to the nuance of society and the modern world.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 months ago
But they’re not disallowing children smoking, drinking, or gambling here. It’s more akin to disallowing children from drinking Smirnoff, smoking Marlboros, or playing blackjack and nothing else.
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.