No country, no non-American company should capitulate to American demands currently. Let dementia Donald and friends flail for a bunch of hollow victories and have their obituaries become holidays
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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And after they had that announcement about how Trump saved them from the law he helped pass. 🤦♂️
The fact that Trump managed to get the credit both for passing and stopping a law that Biden signed really shows how godawful at politics the modern Democratic party has gotten
Can we just ban that brainrot spyware app already so I don't have to see it in the news anymore?
Inb4 "hurr durr whatabout muh facebookstagrams?", not a fan of that trash either but it's a different threat.
You could just stop reading the news if it bothers you so much instead of trying to interfere with other people's first amendment right to rot their brains right out of their own skulls with Chinese propaganda or whatever they want
Also, we should be more scared of our domestic oligarchs and the surveillance and propaganda machines they've been running on the American people
Also also, if TikTok disappears tomorrow, China or their intermediaries can buy whatever data they want from third party data brokers that bundle datasets from a whole variety of businesses and organizations, because we basically don't regulate any of this at all, because Congress doesn't give a shit about our privacy, because it would cost their donors money if they did
If we're not going to ban it, we should stop talking about it and move on. If we are going to ban it, we should stop talking about it and do it. We do ourselves no favors by keeping it in the spotlight. It'd probably be tough for a ban to survive a challenge on First Amendment grounds (maybe following the example of Lamont v. Postmaster General, 381 U.S. 301 (1965)) but we live in stupid times so it's not guaranteed.
As for our home-grown (or imported, in certain notable cases) technological Peeping Toms, at least there's a chance that they could be held accountable. It'd rely on people in power actually growing a pair and giving a fraction of a fuck about their constituents so I'm not holding my breath but they're not as out of reach as a Beijing bug factory.
The ban had already been appealed all the way up to the supreme court and held.
Given the current administration, that's not something I'm taking as a rock-solid iron-clad guarantee. Well-paid lawyers can do great and terrible things.