• gila@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    If Tiktok doesn’t deserve to spy on Americans, is it the counterpoint that US big tech does?

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      6 months ago

      Only muricans get to spy on muricans! Now let’s do like the commies and nationalize TikTok so it too can be murican and then it’s ok for it to spy on muricans!

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        6 months ago

        The true american way is to nationalise tiktok then give it away to your donor friends like a massive handout.

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      6 months ago

      Heck no, but conflating two arguments at the same time makes them both unsolvable. I just approach one topic at a time. I’m very much anti-gov-spying. It’s fourth amendment stuff.

      But I think the constitution is more of a talking point than something American politicians care about these days. They like to use it to say, “Do the thing I like! But wait, stop using it to stop me from stopping the things I don’t like!”

      It’s corruption all the way down.

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        6 months ago

        You put forward a couple of different points - I’m not conflating things, just hoping to skip past the constitutional one (which in my opinion is non-sequitur) to address the other. I might have boiled it down to a one-liner, but here’s some light further reading/viewing which may help to scratch below the surface of why this corruption as you put is probably happening: https://youtu.be/Fhgm5b8BR0k