If you replace government with authorities it’s basically the same. US authorities also buy information from tech companies, which has been very clearly revealed on several occasions. Obviously when police and intelligence services do it, it might as well be the government. It’s just weird to claim the “government” can do it, because of course they can. Just like USA has made regulation that American companies can’t claim secrecy on things they have on servers in EU, despite EU regulation makes it illegal to pass on to US authorities.
No doubt USA is in the wrong too on this issue, whether China is worse IDK.
PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s the same Meta, Twitter, Reddit and all west centralized social media are doing but instead of be working for communists they are working for fascists.
GarrulousBrevity@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I know this is what-about-ism but I really wish we cared half as much about Meta having already destabilized the last two presidential elections.
thejml@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Same here. Generally, I really hate the whataboutism people hop to, but in this case they literally crafted a bill for one company/set of specific companies… they could have easily made it more wide ranging and solved multiple issues with one bill. I feel the “but these others are also doing it and you should have thought about that” is valid criticism of this bill.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
China isn’t communist.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s kind of the no true Christian argument. China is Communist in some ways, like it has a “Communist” party that knows best what’s good for the people. Clearly according to communist doctrine.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
This reminds me of a famous quote from Karl Marx:
“If you call yourself a communist, you must be a communist”
SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I hear ya man. It really gets my goat when people say Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea isn’t a Democratic Republic. Like, it’s right there in the name.
bartolomeo@suppo.fi 8 months ago
Yea, isn’t it just “media is capable of influencing public opinion in the United States”? Lots of news about Nazi stuff on twitter so I doubt this law is about protecting the social fabric of the U.S.