Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months agoSome 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.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Reigning any of them in is a step in the right direction.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 months ago
If this had anything to do with children, they’d be reigning them all in at once instead of wasting time singling one of many out.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Even equating the arm of a militaristic expansionist dictatorship to a tech giant is disingenuous to its core, Google collects a shit ton of data but even that pales in comparison to TikTok’s absurd collection. But all of that aside, your argument is shit. Reign in every tech giant at once? Why? Why the hell is it all or none? I don’t even think the US Federal Government in its current state has enough authority to try that, at this point.
Gabu@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No it’s not, you absolute buffoon. It’s a step in the direction of narrative control.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
If punishing corporations more and more as time goes on is part of narrative control then I want narrative control’s dick deep inside of me.