While I agree with your argument partially, I still find it ironic.
It assumes that we must prevent public from accessing some thoughts/propoganda as they may not be able to make right decision themselves. This is rhyming with 1930s Germany or other authoritative regimes since then.
yes exactly but not on any of tiktok's users to say what they want, which is 1000x more important than the rights of the PRC to tweak the algorithm and moderation however they like
IMO the right to use TikTok in the US is actually way more important than the “right” of users to post whatever they want on it. In the same way that FB can ban you for violating content policy, and the app store can ban you for whatever reason. These are all okay because they’re all the domain of that company/entity to police. The problem is when the government steps in and forces it. I don’t think what website I can use is the domain of the government.
Even more ironic is that we have a government programming us with fears (just fears!) about what China _could_ do to justify some action they are taking. Literally running the playbook of entity they are trying to make us afraid of. Fucked up.
Please don't make your points in a flamey/provocative way, especially on divisive topics. I would have thought it was obvious that your GP comment was doing that.
You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in other places too: for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754148, which was really abusive and the kind of thing we end up having to ban accounts for.
If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
We've already had to ask you this kind of thing more than once in the past.
It assumes that we must prevent public from accessing some thoughts/propoganda as they may not be able to make right decision themselves. This is rhyming with 1930s Germany or other authoritative regimes since then.