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Written by Ethan Zuckerman on 2025-01-18 at 18:00

To be slightly blunter than The Atlantic allowed me to be: the tiktok ban is a protectionist subsidy to Meta and Google worth hundreds of billions of dollars: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/internet-censorship-tiktok-ban/681361/

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Written by Michael Brown on 2025-01-18 at 19:31

@ethanz @inthehands with all due respect that is bullshit. TikTok is a CCP propaganda tool and a national security threat to all liberal democracies.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/01/15/noah-smith-tiktok-china

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Written by A on 2025-01-18 at 19:34

@mluisbrown@techhub.social @ethanz@social.coop @inthehands@hachyderm.io It can be both you know?

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Written by Paul Cantrell on 2025-01-18 at 20:24

@a @mluisbrown @ethanz

Exactly so. And furthermore, if you swap out “CCP” for a fill-in-the-blank, then what you said is undoubtedly true of FaceBook and X as well. But somehow congress isn’t moving to ban them.

The threat is real. The legislative play has nothing to do with the threat.

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Written by Michael Brown on 2025-01-18 at 20:52

@inthehands @a @ethanz the CCP part is the threat. If a US buyer were found for TikTok the ban would be stopped, but China would prefer to have it banned than sell to a US company.

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Written by A on 2025-01-18 at 20:55

@mluisbrown@techhub.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io @ethanz@social.coop right because the other companies mentioned are not a threat at all

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Written by Michael Brown on 2025-01-18 at 22:24

@a @inthehands @ethanz Correct. compared to China, they are utterly insignificant.

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Written by Paul Cantrell on 2025-01-18 at 22:41

@mluisbrown @a @ethanz

Oh for absolute fuck’s sake

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