US TikTok ban aims to weaken China & protect Big Tech monopolies

bigkahuna1986, 2 months ago

Yes, big tech companies are truly the victims that need protecting here

SovietReporter, 2 months ago

Okay, then ban all of them why only TikTok?

bigkahuna1986, 2 months ago

Banning all of them sounds good to me.

SovietReporter, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

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

jeena, 2 months ago

I mean, TikTok is banned in China too, so what’s the problem?

zephyreks, 2 months ago

ByteDance operates Douyin in China.

jeena, 2 months ago

So? What are you trying to say?

zephyreks, 2 months ago

Douyin and TikTok share like 90% of their codebase.

jeena, 2 months ago

So? We share 98.8% of our code (DNA) with chimpanzees and you don’t see that there is a huge difference?

zephyreks, 2 months ago

Conflating code with DNA is both absurd and insane. Most software does not have a common codebase. Most DNA does.

jeena, 2 months ago

Ok I give up, have a nice day.

zephyreks, 2 months ago

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.

SovietReporter, 2 months ago

It is not.

doubtingtammy, 2 months ago

What other media do you want to ban americans from consuming?

rickyrigatoni, 2 months ago

Reality TV would be a good start.