▲ 77 ▼ Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by remington@beehaw.org [M] to c/technology@beehaw.org 33 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) No, only boomers watch Fox News, young people watch TikTok making it a way more potent weapon. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] stembolts@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago And the weapon is ideas? If a society has to shield itself from ideas to prevent revolt, then perhaps that society has bigger problems. Patching the hole as a united bipartisan front, when the ONLY things that receives united bipartisan support is corporate interests, kinda gives their hand away. They're doing this as a desperation move to prevent societal erosion and more importantly, loss of power in media. I think it's too late. Seems like an upheaval, electorally or otherwise, is at hand and this is a desperation move. I don't expect the patching to prevent the rain, but who knows. My interpretation, open to being wrong. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] stembolts@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago And the weapon is ideas? If a society has to shield itself from ideas to prevent revolt, then perhaps that society has bigger problems. Patching the hole as a united bipartisan front, when the ONLY things that receives united bipartisan support is corporate interests, kinda gives their hand away. They're doing this as a desperation move to prevent societal erosion and more importantly, loss of power in media. I think it's too late. Seems like an upheaval, electorally or otherwise, is at hand and this is a desperation move. I don't expect the patching to prevent the rain, but who knows. My interpretation, open to being wrong. permalink fedilink source parent