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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Imagine cheering that your government decided witch social media are you allowed to use.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

This meme brought to you by some poor CIA agent

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well yeah, but it's the US government which hasn't ever done anything problematic before. I'm sure it's for everyone's best interest. /S

Which if that were true, still wouldn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Im assuming your point is that if the us government does 1 bad thing, every move it makes is bad? If not, what is your point?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Uhh. The user is saying that the US government has a long history of both corruption and abuse of power. Source: I am American.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

TikTok will not be banned. People are delusional.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Imagine ~~using~~ ~~being unfathomably addicted to~~ trusting an app parented and developed in a country where you can't criticize your leaders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Thankfully, that doesn't apply to us using the app because the Chinese government doesn't govern us.

Meanwhile, the US government absolutely influences the flow of information on US hosted social media sites, so uh, let's be upset at all of them regardless of location!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

Imagine trusting an app owned by billionaires that just paid off the government to remove their competition.

You're an idiot if you trust any social media platform at this point.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You do know that it's illegal to be a socialist and hold any kind of government job in the United States? Brother we are in that country right now. But let's keep hearing you bitch about China.

Haters will say it's fake: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act_of_1954

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

we are in that country right now

Links wiki article to anti-communist measures taken in 1954

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but also note that it hasn't been recinded, and our current Supreme Court has a soft spot for digging up forgotten legislation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Fair point that it hasn't been rescinded, but I'm struggling to find any convictions based on this law or citations of this law ever being used in court, so it really does not seem relevant nowadays. If anyone can dig up any and reference them here, I'll gladly edit this comment to reflect that information.

There are laws from 1700s that haven't been rescinded but also bear no relevance to the modern day. California just changed old legal language stating that marriage was defined as being between a man and woman, but gay marriage has been legal for a long time now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Brother, that is still the laws on the books. Age does not matter. Do you really not understand that? Do you think laws expire? Did you choose to not understand? What's your deal? You live inside your own nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. American apps are trash like that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So are the xinny apps

Two things can be bad at once you dipshit 😘

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Touch a nerve did I?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As an adult, that's my choice to make, not the government.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Technical possibilities to circumvent a law are not part of my argument here.