• jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I wonder if Tiktok will just make a seperate company that would comply before the 2025 ban comes to effect…

    Or they will just exit the US market, interesting stuff.

    I still think Glenn Greenwald views on this topic hold true.

    “ByteDance doesn’t have any plans to sell TikTok,” the company posted on its official account on Toutiao, a social media platform it owns.

    The sell-or-ban measure was signed into law by US President Joe Biden on Wednesday.

    “We are confident and we will keep fighting for your rights in the courts,” said TikTok boss Shou Zi Chew in a video posted on the platform this week.

    “The facts, and the Constitution, are on our side… rest assured, we aren’t going anywhere.”

    The Chinese government has also dismissed such concerns as paranoia and has warned that a TikTok ban would “inevitably come back to bite the US”.

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      6 months ago

      The Chinese government has also dismissed such concerns as paranoia and has warned that a TikTok ban would “inevitably come back to bite the US”.

      The fundamental ethos of the US and its propaganda of why it’s the greatest country on the planet is the first amendment and the current bunch are absolutely destroying that illusion in plain sight of younger generations.

      They’re sending billions for wars and to Israel supporting and assisting them in genocide yet are saying to the ones they expect to pay for it that there’s no money for healthcare, infrastructure, education, welfare, raising minimum wage, etc, etc, et al, and then still demanding they should receive their votes “because the other guys much worse”.

      I see a lot of younger people saying that both are shit, that the system is rigged and they ain’t playing their game anymore. That is tantamount to revolution.

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        6 months ago

        Funny how you concerned citizens always seem to mention Israel without also mentioning supporting Ukraine. Almost like it’s not on your talking points list.

        If you don’t see an issue with a hostile nation state directly controlling something that is consumed by so many Americans, you’re not looking at it properly.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, not too sure why you would forcefully see it as a threat…

        If you already see it and think of a country as an enemy (boogeyman) than anything people from that country or gov’t says would look like a threat or to be a scary statements…

        At least that is how I see it…

        I hope we shall continue to analyze our own way of thinking and talking about such topics!

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        6 months ago

        Imagine WW3 kicking off from TikTok. Not even a cool battle or anything, just massive misinformation campaigns to incite violence and false flag attacks

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      The Chinese government has also dismissed such concerns as paranoia and has warned that a TikTok ban would “inevitably come back to bite the US”.

      If instead of getting anything they are opting to get $0, that actually confirms the “paranoia”.

      The fact that the two countries that are most accused of spreading disinformation (including using Western’s own social media) not only provide their own alternatives, but also bans Western social media shows that West wasn’t paranoid enough.