Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

nao@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t use it if you don’t like it, but don’t give this bullshit Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda control of something just because you don’t like it.

  It’s just as bad or good as any other algorithm based content app like Facebook or Instagram. If we have a problem with privacy for example then go after that like with gdpr.

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  • ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think you have it backwards, in that it’s the US that’s trying to stop all the Chinese propaganda coming from that app.

    And if TT pull out of the US, it’s pretty telling that their core drive for that thing wasn’t money.

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    • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why would a tech company sell their product to another competitor in such a big landscape like US? It’s quite very much because of money.

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      • _tezz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well for one, because if they don’t then they will get precisely 0 money. If it is indeed about the money then we would absolutely expect them to sell no? Otherwise… There’s no money

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    • yildolw@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If France passes a law requiring Google to sell Google France to a French company, would Google pulling out instead of selling mean their core drive in France wasn’t money?

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      • ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Google is an American company. Apples and Oranges.

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  • dko1905@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think it’s primarily about the algorithm or “Public Enlightenment and Propaganda” but instead about data and company ownership. Currently the US and EU are far closer allies with each other than with china. Services that are owned/controlled by their countries are therefore prioritized, and competing services from non-ally countries are way more scrutinized.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We already sanction TV stations because of their propaganda content e.g. Russia Today. I see this as no different.

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then the EU would need some evidence of propaganda.

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