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This is the kind of thing that gets to me in this whole TikTok situation the most.
China bans most American based social media and what it doesn't ban is heavily monitored censored and regulated.
Why would we (Americans) want to willingly use a Chinese owned/based/operated social media platform like TikTok?
We should never have started using it in the first place or at least immediately dropped it as soon as it became common knowledge that it had substantial ties to china.
There is so much hypocrisy on all sides of this issue.
What's funny about this is that the fear of Chinese Authoritarianism leads Americans straight into American Authoritarianism.
It's this close to self awareness and then veers straight into hypocrisy
Well, they probably read Machiavelli and may not always have our best interests at heart so it's not inconceivable it's entirely intentional.