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Banning the one mentioned is non-partisan
The security at risk is that of the white tech monopoly my friend
Because at least in America when a Billionaire buys a company they can kick the Feds out the were manipulating and suppressing information for 8 years.
Because communism le bad.
Easy, you have a very different idea of what the “nation” in “national security” and “national interests” is than they do.
twitter is american based, only america can subpoena their servers….
with tiktok, china can mess with their servers- The Chinese would benifit from a worse US, the “south african” is actually an American, in the same way African American citizens aren’t African, they’re Americans from Africa. As a side note it is funny but also depressing to see how legitimately racist leftists are so long as it doesn’t exactly match a very specific arrangement.
- TikTok is brain rot
- TikTok has an arguably wider reach than X
- TikTok’s target demographic is more susceptible to manipulation
Breathtaking. However did you say that with a straight face?
Yes. Do you have anything of substance to contribute?
African-American usually refers to descendants of America’s black slave trade. They are not Africans who moved to America. We don’t call dutch born American emigrants Dutch-American. We call them Dutch. We don’t call Chinese born American emigrants Chinese-American. We call them Chinese. Their nationality or continental heritage is usually how they are referred to. Calling Musk an African-American is by a long way, more racist than calling him unamerican.
The only thing you’re fighting for here is being correctly bigoted.
It’s basically irrelevant that the owner of a company like X is an American from South Africa. If you took this same criticism and applied it anywhere else it would be immediately refuted and invalidated as simple bigotry.
There is an obvious difference between TikTok and X and if you’re trying to compare them like this and just use “south african owned” to connect it to “chinese” you’re being disingenuous, even stupid, and really I can only assume you’re being this dumb intentionally.
You must really love the taste of Elon’s dick in your mouth…
I think 2,3, and 4 are correct but…
African-Americans aren’t personally from Africa, but Elon Musk was literally born in Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
Disagree. I wouldn’t refer to a black owned business as being African, if the owner was born in Africa, and is a US citizen. If the business was based in Africa I would, if the owner was not American, I might.
I mean you can think what you want but there is an objectively correct definition:
Explain how this is relevant to my point.
Look, the problem isn’t China getting your data.
The problem is they’re not paying a US oligarch for it.
It’s not, there’s no evidence that it is, and even if the Chinese were trying to get all of our data they could buy it for far less trouble and expense from any of the American data brokers happy to sell it. They don’t need an app to obtain our data, they just need money.
The influence argument is similarly baseless. Cambridge Analytica demonstrated that existing American social media capabilities already permit foreign interference in American public opinion. TikTok is remarkably expensive to run, and the influence campaigns that they could run on Facebook would be much less expensive.
TikTok is competing with American social media companies. It’s no better or worse than any other social media company, but because it’s not based in the US it’s labeled a national security risk. We’re happy to let any company collect and sell personal information, so long as they’re based in America.
Fuck tiktok. Go do the bare minimum of research& you’ll find out for yourself.
I’m going to respond as if you posted this in good faith.
How about you cite your claims and pull people out of potential filter bubbles?
When I search for stuff I don’t find information that leads me to the same conclusion as you. Clearly we’re operating on two different sets of facts.
So instead of posting the most nearly useless kind of comment possible, educate and enlighten.
Does OP think governments only face one issue at a time?
TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which is owned by the CCP. Why make it easy for foreign governments to spread agit-prop in your country If you don’t have to?
I don’t see how videos of capybaras falling asleep is influencing me to overthrow the US government
oh man, we are watching different sleepy capybara videos then
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Because Musky has conned America into thinking he’s a smart good American.
Can someone explain why the author is censored in this screenshot? Isn’t it public already?
Copyright violations are fun
