You’re arguing this is bad for free speech defending an app run by a country that doesn’t have free speech.
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DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Free markets 📉🔥
Free speech 📉🔥
Children’s attention spans 📈✈️
Rakonat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
So your argument is that we should be more like china
mp3@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
More like evening the playing field. If China doesn’t want to let social media businesses operate freely in China, why would the US be required to do the same?
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Because we’re supposed to be better than them
Cheems@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You’re exceptionally dumb if you think they won’t just go to another app that does the exact same thing.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t think that a hostile foreign nation has an inalienable right to collect the data of and interfere in the lives of American citizens, as a form of “free speech” lol
Damage@feddit.it 6 months ago
I guess the EU should ban Meta and Xitter…
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The United States is not an enemy nation to the EU.
WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 6 months ago
They basically do, as revealed by Snowden documents when the US forced American companies like AT&T, Microsoft, or Google to let them spy on their users. I don’t even think Tik Tok stores their user data in China servers, it’s in Texas or Virginia or Singapore.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Well yeah?
caffinatedone@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Probably, but for other reasons. Neither of those are owned by the US, are they?
Rakonat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes but not for the reasons stated in the post you replied to.
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It was apparently fine for years and years though lol
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You think that it being unaddressed made it “fine?” The United States had slavery for years and years before being banned and I wouldn’t call that “fine” either.
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Pedantic much?