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House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid bill (www.npr.org)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

you've failed to answer my second question, which I believe was the important one: why should this behavior be perfectly legal for everyone other than tiktok?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah it's a good question, and I think the answer should be: it shouldn't. Instead of cracking down on one platform or another, they should be cracking down on the bad behaviors built into those platforms.

    But alas, that would require us to elect politicians that understand an ounce of nuance

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I agree with you, but I'm assuming malice because I don't think that stupidity adequately explains their behavior. I think that, to them, the problem isn't propaganda and espionage, it's Chinese propaganda and Chinese espionage where American propaganda and American espionage should be. That's why they're not making what tiktok does illegal, and that's why they're trying to force a sale rather than actually banning it.

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