• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Edit- you should insert a line break after your quoted text, that way the whole comment isn’t presented as a part of a block quote

    Except my point isn’t to defend tiktok or china, it’s to condemn all privately owned social media (including US companies), because without the user being in control over their content presentation pretty much any social media company can abuse their influence at the whim of their host government.

    My point remains the same: the US has as much influence over domestic social media companies as China has over TikTok, and all privately controlled social media (or at least social media that is not within the user’s control) aught to be banned, not just private social media that’s owned by a foreign adversary.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the suggestion on the quote.

      Are you suggesting their should be a publicly owned social media instead? I don’t quite see people being very happy about all privately owned social medias being banned working out well in the US.

      I think what we do agree with is that currently, social medias are too influential with little oversight. Just seems like you feel that there isn’t enough oversight over a private company to ever fix the issue.