Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed.

DogPeePoo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess the EU should ban Meta and Xitter…

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The United States is not an enemy nation to the EU.

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      • WanderingVentra@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well yeah?

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    • caffinatedone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably, but for other reasons. Neither of those are owned by the US, are they?

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    • Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes but not for the reasons stated in the post you replied to.

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  • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was apparently fine for years and years though lol

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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      • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Pedantic much?

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• Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So your argument is that we should be more like china

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    • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨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?

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      • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because we’re supposed to be better than them

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• Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re exceptionally dumb if you think they won’t just go to another app that does the exact same thing.

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