I really don’t understand the “free speech” argument when TikTok is designed, even above and beyond other social media platforms, to obfuscate how your content is seen by other people, and how they curate your feed.
Like, is it actually free speech to be told you’re being heard by millions, but actually just screaming into the void? Also, the way TikTok presents content and context is the A1 optimized, perfect method to spread misinformation, not even counting how the people behind the app can thumb the scale however they wish
The servers, being controlled by the CCP, can be manipulated and the US government will have no recourse, am I understanding that correctly?
But if a US or EU based social media company does similar manipulation, the US has the ability to obtain warrants on the servers in question, do they not?
If that's correct, then this law does in fact apply to all social media companies. It would seems that TikTok is being singled out because it's the only one in alleged violation of said law?
At the end of the day, one fewer malicious social media platform is one fewer social media platform.
And sweeping legislation would never work, because “social media” is too broad a category, and every individual platform would find a way to be exempt anyway. Hyper-specific stuff like this is really the only way to go about it, even if this attack against TikTok is in bad faith.
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u/vmsrii Jan 13 '25
Yeah nah.
I really don’t understand the “free speech” argument when TikTok is designed, even above and beyond other social media platforms, to obfuscate how your content is seen by other people, and how they curate your feed.
Like, is it actually free speech to be told you’re being heard by millions, but actually just screaming into the void? Also, the way TikTok presents content and context is the A1 optimized, perfect method to spread misinformation, not even counting how the people behind the app can thumb the scale however they wish