Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months agoYeah well, it’s not like it’s beneath the US government to do the same thing. Remember Cambridge analytica, or the Snowden leaks? My point being, as far as I’m concerned as a citizen, banning TikTok just transfers power to a more concentrated group of actors. That makes the problem worse.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Wan’t CA a Russian op though?
That said, this new hybrid war era has nation states conduct disinformation campaigns against each other. Tiktok was a tool to conduct such a campaign, the US wants to defend itself. It’s not like China or Russia doesn’t do the same even harder to try and defend itself. It’s not a crime yet to accept Russian money as an NGO or politician in the US (as least not in itself), it is definitely a crime in Russia to do the same.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a move that will definitely consolidate control over opinions, and that’s not a good thing. It’s like a fever. We can’t have nice things because China would break them, so we need to put them away until China stops doing that.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
The US would break them (and has always broken them) even if China wasn’t around.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 9 months ago
How do you know? The US would be a different country if it wasn’t targeted by Russia during the last election. Russia made Trump. Russia made Brexit. How do we know how the world would look like if that hasn’t happened?
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Human rights violations by the CIA
List of FBI controversies
List of CIA controversies
The CLOUD Act
This started long before the 2016 election and is deeply ingrained into the way the United States government operates.