Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 months agoBut 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.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 months ago
How do you suddenly go from comparing these platforms to alcohol and gambling, saying they have no actual utility, and saying ‘every little bit helps’ when it comes to regulation to asking why these companies actions should even be regulated and why the law should apply to them all equally, even going as far as comparing them to the role doctors play in society?
That’s honestly one of the most abrupt 180-degree spins I’ve ever seen.
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.