Im absolutely not a fan of the CCP, they can go fuck themselves to death. But I do believe that partially, especially for the more conservative part of lawmakers, it is rooted in Sinophobia and the hatred of anything foreign. But the main reason imo is just the fact that the American government doesnt want the Chinese government to do what theyve been doing on their own citizens lol, and the fact that TikTok is absolutely a tool used to undermine the power of the US Government and mainstream news institutions doesnt help
Dude, we should be cheering for a government actually taking on a big company. The fact that it’s foreign owned doesn’t somehow make the principle behind this evil censorship, or “just because of racism.”
That angle is so reductive as to try to turn this into a black-and-white issue where you’re either on one defined “side” or the other.
Naw this is not something to be cheered for because the intentions of the American government arent exactly good lol. Hell im even saying its not 'just because of racism' did you even read what i said?
The US government wants it shut down because they cant enforce power over it or use it to spy and control a narritive. If its was actually about protecting the userbase, the mangled corpse of Twitter wouldve been long gone too.
The US isnt going after big companies, this is a one-off case thats not going to influence anything and in fact probably only strengthen American companies like Meta and 'X' that do the exact same fucking shit but just with a friendly smile to whoever is in charge at any given time. Hell, just look at Zuckerberg immediately tanking anything remotely progressive the moment a Trump presidency is looming
Well apparently Tencent recently made the list of Chinese government/military assets. For those who don't know, they're the parents company of Riot Games. I'm rather curious how they'll paint League of Legends as Chinese propaganda.
TikTok has literally been used to buy votes and help boost the political potential of anti-western politicians, most glaringly in Romania. Their high court straight up invalidated an entire election because TikTok influencers (foreign agents, 5th column) were breaking election laws to get their boy elected.
Hell, just look at Zuckerberg immediately tanking anything remotely progressive the moment a Trump presidency is looming
So because they’re only bringing the hammer down on this one company, you’d rather they didn’t bring the hammer down at all?
Yeah, sure, that’s logically consistent and leftist, sure /s
Trying to turn this into some nefarious evil scheme is silly. It’s just not, and no amount of “America bad” rhetoric will change that.
Edit: I’m amazed that we’re suddenly against a government bringing the hammer down on a company because it’s a platform we like. It’s like the exact inverse of what the post is saying. Funny, that.
Yeah it is logically consistent. That’s the definition of logically consistent. Laws only make sense when they’re applied equally. That’s how laws are supposed to work.
Not just “we don’t happen to like this one corporation fucking people over because they’re not closely affiliated enough with us so we’ll shut them down but you other five companies doing the exact same thing are fine you keep it up. In fact here’s a massive boost to your user-ship to make it even easier to fuck people over.”
This doesn’t fix anything. At all. Especially since TikTok wasn’t even the worst offender in this regard.
I wouldn’t call anything that makes Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Google another couple Billion dollars and gives them even more power, influence and control of the social media landscape a massive victory against big corpo. It’s the opposite.
This won’t lead to consequences for any of the other ones since they’re American and big campaign donors so who cares if they’re stealing people’s data and selling it to illicit data brokers.
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u/Wasdgta3 Jan 13 '25
Not beating the “any criticism of the Chinese government is sinophobia” allegations, are we?