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[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 1 points 1 week ago
[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

It has nothing to do with security. It has everything to do with controlling speech and maintaining management of public narratives. This became an urgent issue for the oligarchy when they lost control of Israel genocide discourse. This is what fascist states do. They are just getting started.

[–] mydude@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

The problem with tiktok, x, or even red note is that the government ends up with an alternative to their narrative. They can't have any of that.

A good example is Israel/Palestine genocide. They lost the narrative war, people woke up. It's very difficult to put them back to sleep.

A lot easier to just ban the platform. Security is just an excuse/tool to do so.

[–] 4oreman@lemy.lol -1 points 1 week ago
[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Because communism le bad.

[–] recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago

Does OP think governments only face one issue at a time?

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 week ago

twitter is american based, only america can subpoena their servers….
with tiktok, china can mess with their servers

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee -2 points 1 week ago

I guess if words don’t mean anything the Elon Musk is whatever you declare him to be

[–] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

Because at least in America when a Billionaire buys a company they can kick the Feds out the were manipulating and suppressing information for 8 years.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Because Zuckerberg spent a lot of money bribing Congress into this opinion. And everyone in Congress owns Facebook stock, so TikTok is a security threat to their portfolio balance.

Edit: Another provable fact being downvoted by people who read too much Tom Clancy and don't understand how vulnerable all apps are.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which is owned by the CCP. Why make it easy for foreign governments to spread agit-prop in your country If you don't have to?

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