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I have literally no problem with the US government forcing divestment of TikTok by ByteDance. None. I don't see how they can "ban" it without running afoul of the First Amendment -- and should they try to engage in direct censorship of the platform through something like mandatory filtering by ISPs, I'll be right there with you all.

But if you think forcing a Chinese company, serving the interests of the Chinese Communist Party, that wants to spy on our kids, and manipulate their worldview, with the goal of destabilizing our institutions is "all's fair love and war", due to some highfalutin libertarian principle, than you're actually a moron.

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Derek Orrell 1y ago

Ehhh drop the moron part and put confused or misguided. I’m in! The echo chamber is sophisticated.

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Mike Brock 1y ago

I do think that people who think everything the government does is instinctively a slippery slope towards totalitarianism is moronic. I'm sorry. It's paranoid stupidity. What do people want from me? This chaos climbing is exhausting.

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