Comment by windexh8er
1 day ago
Between the two (TikTok & DJI) ByteDance is the bigger threat to the US. But...Gotta have my vertically shot, short form, ad-laden, misinformation canon!
If the US does actually ban DJI drones the price of them will skyrocket (there's no good competition at the price point), DJI will do their little rebrand shuffle they did last time, and we'll have wasted a few news cycles (by design).
>But...Gotta have my vertically shot, short form, ad-laden, misinformation canon!
It's incredible that people will say this with a straight face, then export Instagram to the rest of the world and proceed to cry "Free Speech" when Meta bans come on the table.
It's incredibly hard for me to square if the concern is "ByteDance is the bigger threat to the US" or if the concern is "ByteDance is the bigger threat to my stock portfolio"
> incredible that people will say this with a straight face, then export Instagram to the rest of the world and proceed to cry "Free Speech" when Meta bans come on the table
This sounds like a straw man.
I worked on the TikTok ban bill. I'm also a huge sceptic of our own social media companies.
The difference is that ByteDance's product is not the same here as in the homeland. It's designed to be a misinformation canon only outside of China. Instagram is a misinformation canon everywhere. Did I say I thought Instagram shouldn't be burned to the ground just the same? No. But I'd rather start with foreign nationals if you really have to know. We're not getting rid of Instagram anytime soon, but one less platform is a win regardless.