"Appeals court upholds #TikTok ban, declining to block law that would force sale"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-ban-appeals-court-congress/
A disturbing thing I've encountered on #Mastodon #Fediverse are voices not necessarily defending TikTok, but disliking the method
Who gives a fuck
High minded but impotent reasons to showboat on the topic, with zero awareness of the stakes is clueless
#Democracy around the world is getting murdered by #centralized #socialmedia
Kill it. Now. Any way
"But #Facebook..."
Oh shut up
@benroyce this is clear government overreach... I hate companies... But I also hate government overreach especially in a system which the only benefitors of this are companies in america which do far worse and aren't even looked at skeptically...
@benroyce the only people benefitting from this are the companies which would like the users that tiktok has...
"what's most important to me is that the method by which #centralized #socialmedia is disposed of occurs according to the most high minded of principles"
do you understand the stakes here?
do you really?
do you understand what whataboutism is?
"well we can't punish russia for attacking ukraine, because usa and china are also bad"
what's wrong with that statement?
do you see?
fuck #facebook
but defending #tiktok because facebook still exists is utterly clueless impotent bullshit
@benroyce
I refuse to use FB ...
Zuck is one of the problems in our nation. Along with Bezos and Elonia.
good! fuck #facebook
and fuck #tiktok
"but facebook still exists so we have to defend tiktok"
(i'm not saying you're saying that, i'm merely riffing on your post by noting that this is an all too common stupidity i encounter out there: #whataboutism)