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[–] 147 points 2 years ago (3 children)

(Not you OP, you = governments)

You want to block corporate social media sites as propaganda

I want to block corporate social media sites because they’re parasites on society.

We are not the same.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Im actually quite upset that lawmakers havent used this to pass generalized privacy protection.

    They have an opportunity to end mass survailance, but thats OK if its US survailance

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    [–] 115 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ooh... i dont think the tankies will like this!

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    [–] 95 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Don't forget China blocks tiktok too.

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    [–] 78 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    They're technically not banning tiktok, they're banning China from owning tiktok

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    [+] 60 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Doesnt china have its own specific version?

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

    More like, tiktok is our specific version

    Douyin is what China has. That came first, then the parent company developed tiktok for release outside of china.
    Then they bought Musical.ly, merged it with tiktok, and that became the modern version of the app

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

    china blocked tiktok first

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I hate tiktok

    but all these talks about keeping children off phones is restricting the flow of information to a point that it scares me. we have Enciclopedias in our pockets ffs.

    if the bar kids from easily accessing the internet, they're effectively blocking 2mil people (14-17) from instant access to information. (I did some sleep deprived math, dont @me if its off)

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    As far as I know, there’s no legislation being talked about to keep kids off their phones, or even social media. This is more of a concern about China having unfettered access to user data at the drop of a hat, which I can absolutely agree is an issue. Though I don’t know that current legislation is the solution.

    That said, kids absolutely do need to spend more time off their phone than they do. We’ve seen legitimate issues arise from perpetual phone use. The issue is… you can’t really legislate that. It’s parents that need to get their heads out of the sand and actually parent.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    I love these winnie pooh memes

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Honestly the brain dead obvious political move outside of monied interests is strong legislation to protect peoples information.

    But we won’t see that

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Well, do you want to be like China in that regard?

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    My self hosted DNS does all of that banning too. But that's just my little quality of life thing (and whatever little that does fighting the global data overlords).

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Ah yes let's copy China. Progressive

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    The same could be said of the US. GAFAM works for the US just like TikTok works for China. I'd like to see the reaction of the US if the EU told Meta to sell the European branch so they "can't spy on EU citizens".

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    A FORCED SALE IS NOT A BAN.

    I've said this like a thousand times and I hate repitition, but the USA as a whole has never tried to ban TikTok. Trump claims he did, it isn't allowed for military servicemembers, but it has never been banned.

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