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   ethanz (ethanz@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 03:36:21 JST ethanz

   To be slightly blunter than The Atlantic allowed me to be: the tiktok ban is a protectionist subsidy to Meta and Google worth hundreds of billions of dollars: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/internet-censorship-tiktok-ban/681361/

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 05:24:08 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @a @mluisbrown @ethanz
     Exactly so. And furthermore, if you swap out “CCP” for a fill-in-the-blank, then what you said is undoubtedly true of FaceBook and X as well. But somehow congress isn’t moving to ban them.

     The threat is real. The legislative play has nothing to do with the threat.

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     A (a@91268476.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 05:24:09 JST A

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     @mluisbrown@techhub.social @ethanz@social.coop @inthehands@hachyderm.io It can be both you know?

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     Michael Brown (mluisbrown@techhub.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 05:24:10 JST Michael Brown

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     @ethanz @inthehands with all due respect that is bullshit. TikTok is a CCP propaganda tool and a national security threat to all liberal democracies.

     https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/01/15/noah-smith-tiktok-china

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 07:41:40 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @mluisbrown @a @ethanz

     Oh for absolute fuck’s sake

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     Michael Brown (mluisbrown@techhub.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 07:41:41 JST Michael Brown

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     @a @inthehands @ethanz Correct. compared to China, they are utterly insignificant.

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     Michael Brown (mluisbrown@techhub.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 07:41:43 JST Michael Brown

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     @inthehands @a @ethanz the CCP part is the threat. If a US buyer were found for TikTok the ban would be stopped, but China would prefer to have it banned than sell to a US company.

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     A (a@91268476.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 07:41:43 JST A

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     @mluisbrown@techhub.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io @ethanz@social.coop right because the other companies mentioned are not a threat at all