• brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    better curb foreign interference

    Wtf. We were talking about domestic bad actors, and now you’re going off any foreign influence?

    only to a much greater extent.

    If this is a “simple fact” I presume should easily be able to prove it, and aren’t just basing it off general xenophobia.

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      8 months ago

      I have no horse in the race, I’m not an American. I don’t know or really care to what extent the corrupt shithole that is America can control its own corporations due to regulatory capture. That’s your own problem to fix.

      All I’m arguing is that from the perspective of the us government it makes perfect sense to be wary of foreign influence before its own corps.

      Didn’t tiktok just accidentally prove the American legislator’s argument by causing mass calls into the legislators office or something? Endless amounts of people who don’t even know why they are calling, just because “tiktok said so”. Are you telling me that isn’t a disturbing implication?