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"Appeals court upholds ban, declining to block law that would force sale"

cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-ban-ap

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A disturbing thing I've encountered on 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

around the world is getting murdered by

Kill it. Now. Any way

"But ..."

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...

@fbievan

"what's most important to me is that the method by which 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

but defending 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.

Ben Royce 🇺🇦

@palin

good! fuck

and fuck

"but facebook still exists so we have to defend tiktok"

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(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: )