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minus-squaredylanmorgan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 days agoSo if an American company collects user data and sells it on the open market to a hostile foreign nation, and accepts money to run propaganda, that’s A-OK?
minus-squareFlexibleToast@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 days agoThat capitalism baby! I suppose Congress can at least control who Facebook et al. are selling to through sanctions and such.
minus-squaredylanmorgan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 days agoThey could but they haven’t, so this ban is just racist economic protectionism.
minus-squareFlexibleToast@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-26 days agoI’m not sure what race has to do with economic protectionism, but it’s really a combination of all of the above.
So if an American company collects user data and sells it on the open market to a hostile foreign nation, and accepts money to run propaganda, that’s A-OK?
That capitalism baby! I suppose Congress can at least control who Facebook et al. are selling to through sanctions and such.
They could but they haven’t, so this ban is just racist economic protectionism.
I’m not sure what race has to do with economic protectionism, but it’s really a combination of all of the above.