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Two things can be bad at once.
What Meta did/is doing here is unbelievably shitty (but not that shocking).
That in no way diminishes the incredibly serious implications of TikTok being wholly owned and operated by a PRC-based company, which comes with the implicit but very real and crucial caveat of the CCP will tell you to do just quietly things with your company sometimes, and if you don’t do it, you go to jail indefinitely.
But then it just comes off hypocritical and disingenuous if you selectively apply pressure. Then it just looks like you're trying to give a competitive edge to US evil social media and preventing youth from learning about the situation in Palestine.
This is not just probable but certain; the whole thing is a very long way of saying this. In a world where the US worked for its citizens, this is a national security no-brainer. But we don't live in a world where the spirit of things is followed when you can enrich yourself skirting the letter. Shit sucks, but this not a secret conspiracy; it's realpolitik.
This one is more subjective...and also still probable for the same fucking reasons and good luck sharing the fact that you can act in a so called 'security' driven purpose and this is the perfect time to do sneaky shit. As if all of History wasn't rife with examples with the Patriot Act being the first USA centric coming to mind amongst fuck what, hundreds?
That is also realpolitik, and all the players know it. Shit sucks.
It is absolutely giving an edge to "evil" (morality doesn't matter in politics, especially international politics, and TikTok isn't good anyway) US social media. China literally blocks all western social media. Everyone plays this game, and TikTok shouldn't be on a pedestal just because you like using it.
OK, I really don't think this has anything to do with it. There are many more places people's are discussing this, like Lemmy for instance, that aren't targeted. I'm sure you can find the same conversations happening on Reddit, Facebook, or whatever other social media. TikTok, though increasingly used for news, is not the only source of news about Palestine, nor is it the best. Short format content will never be good for detailed discussion of news and anyone thinking they're getting thorough news in that format should reconsider.
I'd only accept the TikTok argument when it gets applied to all social media companies in equal measure.
We don't need one-off bans that let the worst offenders get away with exploiting people's personal data. We need a bill of privacy rights.
So your argument is if the regulation isn't perfectly applied to every possible instance of a potential violation simultaneously, then it should never be applied? How does that make any sense?
I think it's a reasonable request that regulations be consistently applied rather than utilized at the whims of corporate favoritism. Facebook deserved a ban well before tiktok was an entity.
As opposed to selective enforcement of regulation mostly informed by nationalism and insider trading?
How is this even a question. XD
You’re focusing on one of the two issues I brought up, and ignoring the other categorically.
If you take off the nationalist filter you'll see that they are the same issue.
Social networks don't need middlemen, middlemen need social networks that rely on server/client architecture they can exploit.