evacide
I'm not writing an entire blog post about how stupid a US TikTok ban would be because this is all that needs to be said:
If the Chinese government is in your threat model, don’t install TikTok on your device. Otherwise, your actual problem is surveillance capitalism.
evacide
@malwaretech The US is the nation-state embodiment of every joke about the things men will do in order to avoid getting therapy.
Marcus Hutchins :verified:
@evacide No I get that, but since when did the US give a fuck about that? Can't do gun control, can't reign in white supremacists, but can ban an entire social media platform because they need to "save the kids" or some shit.
evacide
@malwaretech There are genuine security concerns for, say, journalists or Chinese activists living abroad or even people who work for the US government, but a blanket ban just on TikTok is just some incoherent xenophobic bullshit.
Marcus Hutchins :verified:
@evacide I didn't even make it that far. I'm still stuck on wondering why the so called 'land of the free' that cares so much about free speech that they enable literal Nazis is talking about engaging in censorship of an entire social media platform.
🇺🇦 haxadecimal
@evacide Well, sure, but we want home-grown surveillance capitalism that can be used by our own police state, not imported surveillance capitalism that's used by a foreign police state.
Bálint Szilakszi
@malwaretech @GossiTheDog @evacide
Right up to the moment when China invades Taiwan, it’s difficult to make sense of these moves without that context
Marcus Hutchins :verified:
@GossiTheDog @evacide Yeah It's 100% just an economic thing. Same as chip export ban.
Kevin Beaumont
@evacide @malwaretech I’m probably preaching to the choir here but the TikTok/US thing feels like the US looking at TikTok’s media pee pee while at the social media urinal, realising it is bigger, and getting jealous. It’s about control of eyes, rather than protecting people, methinks.
aethervision :ziltoid:
@evacide @ben This is one of the extremely rare times when I miss being on Zuckbook. If this had been posted there, my feed would now be flooded with ads about the dangers of surveillance capitalism.
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