cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4014840
US TikTok ban aims to weaken China & protect Big Tech monopolies
Yes, big tech companies are truly the victims that need protecting here
Okay, then ban all of them why only TikTok?
Banning all of them sounds good to me.
But why only TikTok though? Why only the main one that people are using to expose the genocide being committed against Palestine?
Sounds like you are only shifting the topic to avoid discussing the real issue. That is very infantile at best and extremely evil and disingenuous at worst
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I mean, TikTok is banned in China too, so what’s the problem?
It is not.
What other media do you want to ban americans from consuming?
Reality TV would be a good start.
ByteDance operates Douyin in China.
So? What are you trying to say?
Douyin and TikTok share like 90% of their codebase.
So? We share 98.8% of our code (DNA) with chimpanzees and you don’t see that there is a huge difference?
Conflating code with DNA is both absurd and insane. Most software does not have a common codebase. Most DNA does.
Ok I give up, have a nice day.
Anyone who’s used both Douyin and TikTok would see that the most salient differences are that the content is not shared and some regulatory details like requiring a Chinese number to register for Douyin.
If you haven’t, then you’re clueless.
