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There’s no real argument that having a foreign adversary control a major media platform (i.e.TikTok) in your country is a good thing.

Posted by mafic Mar 15 '24, 19:50

And like it or not TikTok is a major media platform, which I think they showed pretty clearly when they asked all their users to write their representatives and protest the bill. Directly using the platform to influence legislation may have been a mistake.
One of the things I learned at my old software company when we were thinking of expanding into China is you have to give the government access to *everything*. They might not use it, but they certainly have it. They could dictate content if they chose to. Tweak the algorithm to amplify certain voices. And sure Twitter could too, but there’s a difference between Musk doing it and the CCO doing it that’s fairly profound.
Anyway, they should probably be regulated like any other media platform.

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Today in Twitter, Musk has been locking accounts of those mentioning Nazi artist Hans Kristian Graebener. -- (link) - Qale Mar 15, 20:25 13
- Still better than the CCP and has half the reach (and falling). -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 20:27 12
  - I know that's it's absolutely incorrect and it means I'm showing my age but I always think of this when seeing CCP -- (link) - JD Mar 15, 22:23 [youtube]
  - And like “Twitter also sucks” isn’t a reason to do nothing about TikTok. -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 20:28 10
    - But it is a reason to do something about them both -- nm - Pippy Mar 15, 20:53
    - The problem is this isn’t a pivot to do something as a whole. It’s Patriot Acting in 4 days without even then 9/11 cover. - Qale Mar 15, 20:47 7
      - They’re owned by a Chinese parent company, and pretty much every large Chinese company has deep ties to the state. There’s no sorta kinda. -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 22:56 1
        
        In the US, a company can be served a summons to produce the records/info... in china its automatic at the gov's request. -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 16, 00:36
      - I can believe I’m the only one that recognizes that when the left and right act this swiftly that it is absolutely terrible what happens next. -- nm - Qale Mar 15, 20:49 4
        
        So what happens next? -- nm - mafic Mar 15, 22:44 1
        
        The country collapses into a mad max style hellscape -- nm - Beryllium Mar 16, 00:31
        
        You are not the only one -- nm - Pippy Mar 15, 20:52 1
        
        I’m sorry. I forgot you Pippy. That was my fault. -- nm - Qale Mar 15, 20:57
    - right -- nm - prayformojo Mar 15, 20:29

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There’s no real argument that having a foreign adversary control a major media platform (i.e.TikTok) in your country is a good thing.

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