US TikTok ban aims to weaken China & protect Big Tech monopolies : worldnews

[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, big tech companies are truly the victims that need protecting here

[–] SovietReporter@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Okay, then ban all of them why only TikTok?

[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Banning all of them sounds good to me.

[–] SovietReporter@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

But why only TikTok though? Why only the main one that people are using to expose the genocide being committed against Palestine?

Sounds like you are only shifting the topic to avoid discussing the real issue. That is very infantile at best and extremely evil and disingenuous at worst

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[+] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net -7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I mean, TikTok is banned in China too, so what's the problem?

[–] SovietReporter@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 months ago

It is not.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What other media do you want to ban americans from consuming?

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Reality TV would be a good start.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ByteDance operates Douyin in China.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So? What are you trying to say?

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Douyin and TikTok share like 90% of their codebase.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So? We share 98.8% of our code (DNA) with chimpanzees and you don't see that there is a huge difference?

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Conflating code with DNA is both absurd and insane. Most software does not have a common codebase. Most DNA does.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ok I give up, have a nice day.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Anyone who's used both Douyin and TikTok would see that the most salient differences are that the content is not shared and some regulatory details like requiring a Chinese number to register for Douyin.

If you haven't, then you're clueless.

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