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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Absolutely none of this law was ever about privacy or mental health. No one ever claimed it was. The law is banning tiktok because it is based in China. That is the reason given by the law itself. The possibility that meta or Google or some other American company will buy or replace tiktok and operate the same way is not an unintended outcome. It is literally the whole point of the law to get bytedance to sell tiktok to an American company.

[–] JackbyDev 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hence them saying it's braindead to say otherwise.

What would be interesting to see is if other countries ban Facebook because it's a "national security risk" lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

From China's perspective, Facebook probably IS a "national security risk", which is why it is already banned over there.

For American to do business and sell products in China, they almost always have to go through a Chinese company. I'm sure that's part capitalism and part accountability theater, but it's just a fact. So why is it such an outrage for America to ask TikTok to do the same?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Google is even banned in China. Most Western social media and tech platforms are banned there, and have been for decades.

[–] JackbyDev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Because the end result of this line of thinking is every country having siloed social media and not being able to communicate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Throw in that Tik Tok is banned in China, so it won't be a national security risk for them to sell it, just profit and then have to invest that money into other forms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You mean like how the entire western internet is banned in China?