ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in U.S. if legal options fail, Reuters sources say
ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in U.S. if legal options fail, Reuters sources say
TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer to shut down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the U.S., four sources said.
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This is purely about subversive influence on the vulnerable and easily influenced people who use the platform, not about money.
What will they influence American youths to do? Not support genocide?
“subversive influence” 😂
Laugh all you like. I’m not some McCarthy-era anti-commie witch Hunter.
I do however recognise the determination of both China and Russia (neither communist) to undermine whatever foundations are left of US democracy.
The US was never meant to be a democracy and has never been one. It was born of a bourgeois revolution, and the Founding Fathers formed a bourgeois democracy, which was never meant to represent us, and never has. Princeton University Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
The US government and US corporate media are trying to convince us that foreign powers are undermining our democracy by putting foreign ideas in our heads through social media. But in reality 1) there is no democracy and 2) our government and corporate media have been putting ideas in our heads our entire lives. What they’re really worried about is losing control of the public discourse.
- Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
- Propaganda model
- Edward Bernays
- Walter Lippmann
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Powell Memorandum
- The Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy
As I’ve said elsewhere in this post, the BlueAnon conspiracy theories of Russian/Chinese bots significantly influencing our elections don’t hold water. Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go AwayInteresting. I’ll have a look at those, thanks.
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Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
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