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With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’ (www.wired.com)
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[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

strawman gonna strawman.

Hardly a strawman! We have a major social media company in the US, that is controlled by a foreigner, for their own, and for foreign interests, and impacting our elections with measureable results.

So, obviously, this move wasn't done to prevent such a thing from happening, just to prevent certain countries from doing it.

you act like it’s the current administration that let’s Elon do whatever he does, but it’s the incoming administration (Trump) that is allowing that.

Our current admin has done nothing to stop it, and therefore allowing it.

Why are all the US Gov accounts STILL on Twitter?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Hardly a strawman! We have a major social media company in the US, that is controlled by a foreigner, for their own, and for foreign interests, and impacting our elections with measureable results.

are you even taking this seriously? did you not even comprehend what I said or are you just blindly responding hoping for a "gotcha"?

So, obviously, this move wasn't done to prevent such a thing from happening, just to prevent certain countries from doing it.

not obvious, and just because you say it with more conviction doesn't make it true.

Our current admin has done nothing to stop it, and therefore allowing it.

by that logic, then you're just as guilty for allowing them to do nothing. so what gives you the right to complaint about it if you haven't done anything to stop them?

Why are all the US Gov accounts STILL on Twitter?

there are so many reasons why but you're just too emotional and inexperienced to see them, but I'll point out a couple just so you can see how absurd you're being.

  • government moves slow, it takes years to move a major communications component
  • red tape slows the process down even more, budgetary concerns, compliance requirements, contractual obligations
  • lack of existing choices that have the same scope of reach to Americans
  • popularity of the platform for Americans

my advice, sit down and listen before you go off half cocked.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

are you even taking this seriously? did you not even comprehend what I said or are you just blindly responding hoping for a “gotcha”?

That aint a "gotya", that's proof it has nothing to do with preventing foreign interests from influencing anything. Because we have a foreign interest influencing it already: Musk.

not obvious, and just because you say it with more conviction doesn’t make it true.

So, we have other large social media networks, that are rife with foreign influence, that already influence the US's internal politics... But yet, banning tiktok was to prevent it from happening?

Its either true, or its not. And in this case, its not true. The sole reason was to keep China specifically, and it only arose because people in the US were learning about shit that US supports. Which the US doesn't want.

by that logic, then you’re just as guilty for allowing them to do nothing. so what gives you the right to complaint about it if you haven’t done anything to stop them?

Except, they're not trying to stop foreign influence. They are trying to stop one country, and they only took notice because of news that is damning to the US.

there are so many reasons why but you’re just too emotional and inexperienced to see them, but I’ll point out a couple just so you can see how absurd you’re being.

And... with all your excuses... How come nothing is being done still? Its not new that Elon is a fascist. And it's not new that Elon is in bed with several foreign interests that are hostile to the US... In fact, its at least 6 years old news at this point.

But tiktok. home of the Pro-Palestinian content is what is being gone after now. Not the Fascists running Twitter, or Facebook... Wonder why that is? Could it be their political donations?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -1 points 3 hours ago

you clearly aren't taking this discussion seriously or you're acting in bad faith.

you continue to pound the same useless points again and again with little to no change.

I can only assume that your intent is this and that you're simply trying to "muddy the water".

I'm disappointed that you can't even hold up your argument without repeating yourself like a broken record because you don't even believe in your own message.

literally the only new angle you have taken is a "pro-palestinian" one, which to be frank tells me all I need to know about you and your goals.