Good. I don’t use TikTok and never will, but the government shouldn’t be able to tell you what kind of speech you listen to, what speech you make, or what platforms you use to communicate it. This is some 1984 shit. Looking forward to Trump banning every app except Truth social because we opened the door to this nonsense and all the other apps are spreading “anti-christian hate speech” or “anti-american-first propaganda”. Fuck the CCP. But also fuck the government trying to restrict speech.
They are just jealous that someone else is getting all the tasty data, and they think it should be going to a US company instead.
I’m a bit worried about the amount of people I see making this argument whenever I see posts about a TikTok ban/acquisition.
I’m getting the impression that, either:
- People don’t believe there’s (significant) Chinese propaganda on TikTok.
- People believe there would be (significant) US propaganda on TikTok following an acquisition.
- Given the choice, people would rather see Chinese propaganda than US propaganda.
Am I correct? Is there a nuance I’m missing?
I can understand concerns over point #2 here, but #1 and #3 seem wild to me.
Yli.think you make a reasonable point, but it feels like choosing between getting stabbed in the left leg vs the right leg.
If it were the US vs another democratic country, I would feel like that too.
I’m particularly concerned with China (and Russia) because:
- They are not a democratic country.
- They do not have freedom of speech like most countries
- As far as I perceive, they are generally enemies of well-intentioned countries.
I might have a different perspective though. I’m a fairly recent US immigrant from Canada.
Edit: I’d like to add, my tone may come across wrong over written text, I’m just trying to understand people’s overall perspective and whether mine is different, I’m not trying to argue and I’m not upset at you nor any of the commenters I’ve seen on similar posts.
Your comment is a perfect example of what US propaganda does to people.
