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Senate passes bill forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signature. Biden expected to sign on Wed. (apnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Actually, you're right.

If we consider this normal, it would totally be acceptable for Europe to demand a ban or sale of American ~~spying and propaganda tools~~ social media and streaming platforms. Either way, it would reduce the harm they could do - and in the case of a sale, they'd actually have to adhere to consumer friendly laws.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

They probably should. FB and all those other apps suck just as much.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fucken do it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish we would, but on the other hand, not being a totalitarian regime is kind of the reason why it's better here. Damned if you you, damned if you don't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Protecting citizens' interests is not totalitarian.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it was about protecting citizens interests, PRISM would have been declared illegal and disbanded, not hushed and expanded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PRISM is European?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Read the whole comment chain again. The other guy said 'it should be ok for Europeans to ban US social media'. I said 'do it'. And they then replied about totalitarianism.

So the mention of PRISM confused me because I was talking about EU countries banning facebook and Instagram to protect their citizens.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, they really should. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter... These are all trash.