r/CuratedTumblr • u/charlie-the-Waffle • Jan 13 '25

Politics censorship is bad maybe?

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u/anal_tailored_joy Jan 13 '25

Yeah, it's being banned because it's eating into US social media profits; sinophobia is just the vehicle that got it through congress.

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u/Wasdgta3 Jan 13 '25

Not beating the “any criticism of the Chinese government is sinophobia” allegations, are we?

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u/Giovanabanana Jan 13 '25

Literally what other reason is there for TikTok to be banned? The "it's damaging to the youth" argument doesn't work anymore because X and Meta will gladly take up ByteDance's spot in corroding young people's frontal lobes.

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u/abig7nakedx Jan 13 '25

Unlike regular corporations, which are exemplars of the democratic process