Good. Now do all the other social media companies that are also spying on people and also pushing propaganda.
Oh wait, I forgot that the rest of them are Western companies.
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Good idea or not is debatable.
But at the SCOTUS level it's just about weather or not the government has the power to decide if and how a Corp can operate in the US. Which it obviously does, since Corporations aren't people and have no rights.
Given the pro Corp majority on the court, this decision is a little surprising to me. I'd be shocked if they made the same call for a domestically owned Corp.
If the Dems weren't the Bottom of the couple, they'd go on the offensive and use this ruling to get privacy and data mining sanity installed. Since tech are some of their biggest donors in the last 20 years, that won't happen.
The perks of having all political power purchasable.
Lmao the dem justices voted to ban too, your delusional they don’t give a fuck that’s why zuck pays them
This man is no brainier, China clearly acts as an adversary in almost any other category. It regularly hacks our infrastructure, helps Russia with Ukrainian invasion, it wants to invade Taiwan, or ally.
OP was saying that Democrats should go with this ruling to go after Twitter and Meta. I agree, but no way in hell any legislature would happen in those 3 days, especially when House and Senate have majority of Republicans and Twitter and Meta right now appears to be on Republican side.
I don't why people are acting so surprised that a government might be okay with "friendly", so to speak, companies collecting citizens' data and not comfortable with a company that is cozy with a foreign, historically antagonistic country.
Like, this isn't the hypocrisy gotcha that you think it is.
I'm not why you think it's meant to be a gotcha.
Your comment seemed to be pretty pointedly trying to make a case for the hypocrisy of the government.
I'm pretty sure pointing out that the U.S. government is being hypocritical isn't a gotcha.
And China being a foreign country doesn't make their stated reasons for doing it less hypocritical.
Okay I'm not going to argue with you about what is or isn't a gotcha, you seem to be really hung up on that. I'm saying they're not being hypocrites and just pointing out that they aren't banning western companies from collecting data is missing a whole lot of nuance. It's not as simple as "if you ban one you gotta ban them all, otherwise you're a hypocrite".
Yeah, I'm weirdly hung up on people saying things about me that aren't true. I'm just an odd duck that way. I'm sure you're a completely different, but what with you having your PhD in psychology rescinded by Harvard after you faked all that data in those papers, I don't think we can trust you on it.
... What? My guy you might want to go get some fresh air, I'm concerned you just had a micro stroke.
Did I or did you lie and say I was trying to do a gotcha? Because I'm pretty sure that's what happened:
This must be more than a micro stroke, because I'm looking at that screenshot and it still looks like that was what you lied about.
And I was pointing out that lying about people in very obvious ways makes you look ridiculous. A point you figured out but didn't realise it applied to yourself.
Lying? Mate what in the hell are you on about, seriously? I was kinda half joking before but I'm actually serious now, I think you need some fresh air. I genuinely have no clue what you're on about anymore. No one's lying and no one accused anyone else of lying in this conversation.
No one’s lying
I literally showed you where you lied. Are you claiming it's not a lie and I did think it was a gotcha? Are you psychic?
I don't know what you're on about mate, and this has gone on too far. I hope your day, week, or whatever turns around. Have a good one.
You know exactly what I'm on about because I literally showed you that you lied about me trying to do a gotcha when I wasn't trying to.
So why you're pretending to be stupid is beyond me.
I do not know how to explain to you that I am not going to argue with you about what a gotcha is. I already said that. I cannot believe that's what you're still on. But I will suggest you read about what the "royal you" is.
Remember one post ago when you lied about thinking that this had been going on too far and wished me a good one because you didn't like me accusing you of lying about things?
Well I was actually concerned about your mental health for a little bit there but now I'm pretty confident you're just a troll, so trust me this really will be the last time. Ciao.
You've lied to me and insulted me more than once but I'm the troll. Interesting.
I would like to see that happen. That said, my understanding is that TikTok's data collection is enough to make other social media platforms blush (at least, it was once upon a time. They probably made it worse since then). That, coupled with China not exactly being the US's bestie, makes me feel this is at least a start.
You can't even create TikTok account without installing their app on your phone first. I initially tried and purposefully did not want to have me phone mined, and was unable to register.
But actually the data mining is not the biggest issue even. The biggest issue is that a foreign government (especially since China doesn't work like other Western countries and directly controls what their companies are doing) has influence over 17 million Americans.
Unanimously??? We are absolutely cooked.
It's amazing how well and efficiently the government works to uphold the interest of their owners. True bipartisanship.
Thumbnail looks like the black lodge. Hail David Lynch, I can't believe we now exist in a world without him
Ban it. Ban red book. We'll go to Vietnam next.
GovCo can suck my dick.
I can’t wait for the government to learn the futility of trying to block teenagers from something they like.
It’s like when Napster got destroyed and suddenly there were dozens of file sharing programs.