Comment by MaxHoppersGhost

16 hours ago

Thank goodness! I don’t know how anyone thinks this isn’t a good idea for America.

Not sure if sarcastic or not, I'll bite. If tiktok infringes some kind of data privacy laws, punish them. If the data privacy laws of the US are bad, improve them.

But this? Just because some... not so bright soldiers use tiktok to upload videos of their base? What else is there so bad it requires a total ban? It seems like hypocrisy to me, when Meta, Google, X also have similar data available and also don't want to adhere to for example EU laws.

Do you think a Great Firewall of America is a good thing? Because that is what this ruling enables.

  • Do you think TikToc is a net positive for the world or the US?

    • Isn't that the same argument used by China for why the GFW is needed? The US allows all sorts of things that can be argued as net negative (e.g. smoking).

    • It is a net negative.

      Attempts at intervention by legacy states over the evolution of the internet (which will obviously fail on sufficiently long time-scales) are also a net negative.

      Two net negatives do not make a net positive.