Lawmaker: TikTok must "sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."

Lawmaker: TikTok must “sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.”

  • ToxicDivinity [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    112·
    8 months ago

    Any app or any business that is being largely impacted by legislation will ask their customers to push for a favorable outcome. I’ve seen American businesses ask their customers to call Congress about one thing or another a bunch of times. This isn’t “nefarious” or “hijacking a platform” it’s normal business behavior

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      When Anglos do it it’s “100 wholesome chungus capitalism willed by God”; when Chinese folk do it it’s “evil malicious debt-trapping CCP [slur] [slur] [slur] [ARCHAIC slur]”. Feels like an application of the Parenti quote all over again.

    • RuthlessCriticism [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Literally all of Big Tech did this a few years ago with SOPA/PIPA and that stuff. People are acting like this is some crazy unheard of thing like they just figured out what the internet is a few months ago.