US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
Lawmaker: TikTok must "sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."
TikTok is not a tool for its users, it is a tool for a for profit corporation
That pretty much describes every corporation in existence.
Some of them provide utility and some don't, which is why we don't allow children to drink, smoke, or gamble. If a company providing those goods and services targets those demographics it gets political action.
Welcome to the nuance of society and the modern world.
But they're not disallowing children smoking, drinking, or gambling here. It's more akin to disallowing children from drinking Smirnoff, smoking Marlboros, or playing blackjack and nothing else.
Reigning any of them in is a step in the right direction.
If this had anything to do with children, they'd be reigning them all in at once instead of wasting time singling one of many out.
Even equating the arm of a militaristic expansionist dictatorship to a tech giant is disingenuous to its core, Google collects a shit ton of data but even that pales in comparison to TikTok's absurd collection. But all of that aside, your argument is shit. Reign in every tech giant at once? Why? Why the hell is it all or none? I don't even think the US Federal Government in its current state has enough authority to try that, at this point.
That's like choosing not to take a doctor's license away unless you can take away every bad doctor's license in the USA at one time.
How do you suddenly go from comparing these platforms to alcohol and gambling, saying they have no actual utility, and saying 'every little bit helps' when it comes to regulation to asking why these companies actions should even be regulated and why the law should apply to them all equally, even going as far as comparing them to the role doctors play in society?
That's honestly one of the most abrupt 180-degree spins I've ever seen.
Fuck equal rights of a corporation to fuck people over with an addictive product that has no utility. Thats an equal right I cannot stand behind.
Are you drunk or something? That's literally what you're arguing for here.
No it's not, you absolute buffoon. It's a step in the direction of narrative control.
If punishing corporations more and more as time goes on is part of narrative control then I want narrative control's dick deep inside of me.
