• darkcalling@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      43·
      9 months ago

      What are they going to do? Vote for a party that didn’t approve of this aka a third party that will never win? Protest a bit then go home when it doesn’t work?

      Or more than likely go use some brand new or existing suddenly mysteriously popular thanks to a CIA push American/western backed platform that’s similar but not the same?

      Compare to the consequences of not crushing Chinese social media which is America sliding down away from unchallenged hegemony of the global cultural discourse, unchallenged hegemony of the towering heights of tech, communication, etc.

      It isn’t about Americans being spied on. Tiktok is controlled by the CIA and NSA and their American offices are full of “former” intelligence officers. It’s about the fact that because it isn’t American they can’t use it in influence ops globally, they can’t control global discourse with it. Just like Huawei, it was never about Chinese backdoors, it was about lack of 5 eyes western back doors in the equipment going to others that threatens the “national security” of a hacking empire of spies. The problem was always someone in Africa or Russia or India or South America, etc who couldn’t be spied on, influenced, moderated by American power via American companies, back-doors, back-room agreements with the State Dept and CIA for influence OPs, helping color revolutions, etc.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      9 months ago

      When vine shut down, it was basically a fast-content desert for several years. Music.ly wasn’t that great, but it was the only real alternative since most of the other alternatives sucked or didn’t exist, then it got acquired by Byte Dance. American companies learned from that mistake and now they’ve been working on their own shitty TikTok clones

      I can’t imagine many people will switch over unless the features are good and creators get to tell their fans to switch before it’s too late

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      36·
      9 months ago

      The government does control TikTok lol. CIA and NATO psyop and intelligence officers are executives, and all the servers are stored in the US and co-managed by American companies .

      Either no one briefed the politicians on this and they’re about to set up a banning precedence that could ruin intelligence ops in many countries, or it’s just jingoism and nothing will actually happen to it.

      It’s mostly free speech, small government Republicans?

      No, democrats are very proud and want everyone to know that it’s a bipartisan bill

      • invo_rt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        9 months ago

        Either no one briefed the politicians on this and they’re about to set up a banning precedence that could ruin intelligence ops in many countries, or it’s just jingoism and nothing will actually happen to it.

        I think it’s doing nothing while having the appearance of doing something.

  • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    It’s not going to pass in the end and if it does, the courts will stop it.

    America doesn’t want to set a precedent of forcing companies to sell off their foreign branches. It’d be disastrous for American companies as soon as they lose their hegemonic status.