They don't actually want to get rid of tiktok. They just want it to be owned by a consortium of American billionaires so they can influence public policy more easily.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago

That is a just cause in theory

Except billionaires aren’t loyal to any accepted borders

[–] Hathaway@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Part of me would rather have it with capitalistic sociopaths that want to extract my money rather than an authoritarian government that is provably responsible for (multiple?) genocide(s). Like, in a perfect world, there’s a better system, but at least our government still, in theory, can control the businesses within our country. They won’t though.

[–] pop@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

an authoritarian government that is provably responsible for (multiple?) genocide(s)

Yes, US has a history of it. As a matter of fact, it was built on a genocide of the native population and is currently contributing to one in the middle ea

[–] Hathaway@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Whataboutism. One, in theory, I have a say for/against(in theory) another I don’t. It isn’t hard. But, yes, US bAd. Good job. Anything to actually add?

You don’t have to tell me about the murders of my ancestors.

Also, to follow up, the US government doesn’t control social media here, unlike wherever your bot farm is out of. Which is why your whataboutism really falls flat, cause one media company is controlled by an authoritarian government currently eradicating Uighurs and the other is owned by Zuck, who’s trying to idk honestly, drown in money?

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am not a synthetic bot, instead, I am a human being but yes, USA bad.

[–] Hathaway@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

That, we’ll agree on.

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The US government is controlled by the same interests and lobbbyists that control the government, so it's similar although not the same thing. Just because their interests align at this moment because the billionaires don't want competition and the government has a hard-on for Israel doesn't mean their right.

And for the record, I don't even use Tik Tok, and I personally think social media and shortform content is bad for young brains and probably causing a lot of ADHD and impairing my ability to read. But I find this whole bill very fake and performative and probably done for the wrong reasons. It's weird that we finally got an international perspective unfiltered by US media companies that bow to AIPAC and of course it's getting banned.

[–] Shameless@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

This is my kind of thinking, it does seem as though the US sees TikTok as a possible use of propaganda, but if they own it, well then they can control the propaganda being pushed at least