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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (14 children)

In this house, we only like propaganda that's covering up genocide. /s

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i like my all-american freedom and liberty data collection and propaganda

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Americans complaining about other countries meddling in their affairs is such a hilarious hypocrisy. You guys have been the worst for ruining other countries around the world.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

I found it interesting that this Tiktok regulation talk hit peak fervor around the time that youths were using tiktok to fully grasp the severity of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Meanwhile mainstream corporate media was painting a very different and dishonest story of the genocide.

We need broad regulation for social media in the US, not cherry picked fervor for political reasons.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Yet they had the excuse and idiots like op are cheering on their censorship

Actual privacy laws like the Eu? Nah let's just make an american version of the Great Firewall.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

This article from 2024 gives a pretty good rundown as to why using this reasoning to ban Tiktok will set a very bad precedent:

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1251086753/tiktok-ban-first-amendment-lawsuit-free-speech-project-texas

If the govt cared about your data privacy, they would create data collection regulations that they could then use to ban tiktok if/when they violate them.

Disclaimer: I am not saying Tiktok is a great app with zero issues. This is a concern about causing long term problems by using a short term easy solution.

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