Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

• chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah! And that’s only a privilege for white oligarchs! /s

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  • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Would you rather a hostile foreign entity do it instead, who have vested interest in sewing destructive chaos as a goal, though? That’s the alternative.

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    • reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, there’s a third alternative where manipulating us is illegal for anyone

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      • card797@champserver.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s just too vague to legislate. Stop talking to everyone because you’re being manipulated non-stop by everyone you know.

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      • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I agree, wish this was the actual goal but it’s going to be hard to pry those rights out of their hands.

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    • Kalysta@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We don’t need a “hostile foreign entity”. Trump is doing that just fine all on his own.

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      • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What about Biden signing in the new spying bill recently that enhances wiretapping of US citizens?

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Since we’re not denying that white oligarchs do it too, then giving consumers a choice as to which manipulated information they see is better than having just our goverment decide. Sowing chaos isn’t inherently bad - law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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• K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The US is terrified of the public becoming anti capitalist and anti colonialism which is what’s happening. THEY want control of the narrative like they’ve had for decades so they can control the message.

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  • PhAzE@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t blame them. Late stage capitalism is causing a lot of people a lot of pain while a few get super rich from it.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then they completely missed the cause and effect. China didn’t need to do anything. We’re radicalizing people every day with economic gaslighting, medical debt, school debt, housing costs, and grocery costs.

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