I know this is unpopular and goes against the ideals of the early internet, but the open internet (especially social networks) is hugely damaging at the moment.
This isn’t just “people having different opinions”, but rather full-scale cyber warfare that’s currently happening. It’s also only going to get worse…
Propaganda works, and it works quite well. Nobody is fully immune.
So unless you feel like having Musk/Russia/China dictate your life (through forcing their shit agenda), banning their attack vectors is really the only play.
This is what I was worried about with tiktok being banned.
I don’t have a tiktok. I don’t like the concept. I won’t be joining loops. I just don’t like the core concept.
Now add in that it’s a chinese spying tool, and I’m all the way out.
Buuuuuuut it does pose a tricky situation. Ban it, and set a precident that banning social networks is ok. Maybe they ban the fediverse next. We all know this country is run by billionaires and big business. We all know that the onlu reason tiktok is banned is because it competes with X, and Elon is basically president now.
So what stops them from banning the fediverse? Every single instance is now illegal. And since the fediverse is so unknown, it’s not like there would be much pushback politically.
So. Ban the chinese spy tool, or defend net nuetrality?
So 1: your chronology is wrong, because this was all done under Biden, 2: Trump apparently is asking the SC to intercede on TikToks behalf and keep them going, and 3: in what way does a short video thing for braindamaged teens compete with twitter?
Americans: “TikTok is an insidious weapon of a foreign government used to brainwash our children into believing all sorts of horrifying leftist ideas.”
Also Americans: “If you don’t like Twitter, just turn off your phone. I don’t see what the big deal is. Edward Whoden? You sound like a Russian bot.”
Fractured internet here we come
I know this is unpopular and goes against the ideals of the early internet, but the open internet (especially social networks) is hugely damaging at the moment.
This isn’t just “people having different opinions”, but rather full-scale cyber warfare that’s currently happening. It’s also only going to get worse…
Propaganda works, and it works quite well. Nobody is fully immune.
So unless you feel like having Musk/Russia/China dictate your life (through forcing their shit agenda), banning their attack vectors is really the only play.
It’s already here
Oh cum on! Don’t tell me you gonna try for twitter?
This is what I was worried about with tiktok being banned.
I don’t have a tiktok. I don’t like the concept. I won’t be joining loops. I just don’t like the core concept.
Now add in that it’s a chinese spying tool, and I’m all the way out.
Buuuuuuut it does pose a tricky situation. Ban it, and set a precident that banning social networks is ok. Maybe they ban the fediverse next. We all know this country is run by billionaires and big business. We all know that the onlu reason tiktok is banned is because it competes with X, and Elon is basically president now.
So what stops them from banning the fediverse? Every single instance is now illegal. And since the fediverse is so unknown, it’s not like there would be much pushback politically.
So. Ban the chinese spy tool, or defend net nuetrality?
So 1: your chronology is wrong, because this was all done under Biden, 2: Trump apparently is asking the SC to intercede on TikToks behalf and keep them going, and 3: in what way does a short video thing for braindamaged teens compete with twitter?
Americans: “TikTok is an insidious weapon of a foreign government used to brainwash our children into believing all sorts of horrifying leftist ideas.”
Also Americans: “If you don’t like Twitter, just turn off your phone. I don’t see what the big deal is. Edward Whoden? You sound like a Russian bot.”
At what point did I discredit Edward Snowden, or defend twitter?