Comment by DrScientist
13 hours ago
Indeed - if the US is this afraid of a popular social network under foreign control then every country outside the US should be petrified.
And domestically in the US - citizens should be demanding the dismantling of the big powerful players - which ironically the US government is against because of it's usefulness abroad..... ( let's assume for one moment, despite evidence to the contrary, that the US government doesn't use these tools of persuasion on it's own population ).
> if the US is this afraid of a popular social network under foreign control then every country outside the US should be petrified.
They are and have been.
This is exactly why China controls the internet and any company with a presence there.
I have no horses in the race but if you justify a Tiktok ban in the US because of a foreign influence, you also do justify a Facebook ban in the EU on the same arguments.
Thus why Facebook is blocked in China, but not in the EU, since we have a much less adversarial relationship with them.
I'm not sure how long it will last with Zukerberg and Musk openly threatening the EU.
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