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Both the Economist and the WSJ state explicitly that the main reason the TikTok ban picked up so much bipartisan steam in DC since Oct. 7 was because of how much Israel criticism was allowed to air an (lemmy.world)

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@ggreenwald

Both the Economist and the WSJ state explicitly that the main reason the TikTok ban picked up so much bipartisan steam in DC since Oct. 7 was because of how much Israel criticism was allowed to air and circulate on the platform (see below).

But really! It's all about China!

@benshapiro

The House has voted to separate TikTok from its Chinese Communist Party ownership. It’s nice to see a bit of bipartisan sanity once in awhile.

Direct link to video (should work for a bit): https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1768310919887536135/vid/avc1/1280x720/4zWnNyjVkmz0yRc9.mp4?tag=14

Source: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1768382962360283559

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The problem is the things they get mad at TikTok for is basically the same stuff other social media platforms do, but they do it for the US government so it's fine. I think banning TikTok or forcing it to change is great but the same should be applied to Google, Meta, and others to ensure that these companies can't violate users' privacy by gathering all of this data and just letting governments have it. But no they don't argue that, instead they just focus on oh no China is doing all these bad things and we have to stop them, not acknowledging their government agencies do the same type of spying.