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Rednote right now (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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The conversations are amazing

A meme captioned "Rednote right now:" followed by an image of an American man saying that everything they were told about China is a lie, and a Chinese woman saying that everything they were told about the US is true.
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[+] -9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

true! of course your hand waving why it was banned and the options they were given. tiktok could have divested from chinese control in the US region they chose not to. in no way has the US government censored information from individuals as a result of that bill. they censured the business operating procedures. two very different and distinct issues when it comes to access to content.

In no way have americans been prevented from accessing the information within tiktok. compare and contrast that with say trying to find tiananmen square information in china.

in fact i'll help everyone out, here is the ruling

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

    US users make up about 17% of TikToc's global user base. Selling their addictive algorithm to keep a small number of users was never going to happen.

    And what hand waving? It was banned because the US government could not control the flow of information to its own people like it can with all the other US corporate/state owned media. The data collection nonsense is just that. If they cared they could have regulated data collection across the board. Foreign countries abide by host countries laws all the time, see GDPR and similar. But that would have cut into the profits of other corporate/state controlled media outlets like Meta and Google.

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