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

• 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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      • reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        if they were rights everyone would have them.

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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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      • Kalysta@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I completely missed this one. Gross.

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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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