Comment by raincole
4 days ago
The more you ban, the more "centralized" and "massive" the platforms you don't ban get. Unless you literally ban everything.
One has to be extremely naive to think Google (youtube) lobbyists didn't play a role in this Tiktok ban.
Big things aren't necessarily centralized, and you can replace big things with lots of small ones.
Meta certainly lobbied for a TikTok ban:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...
Ah so that's why he's sucking up to trump now.