See I honestly think it’s because they’re so old that they genuinely don’t understand that issue
They’re going after TikTok because foreign ownership of a National Security related industry gives them Red Scare flashbacks
Most of the leadership are people who went through the Cuba-Turkey missile crisis, and it fucking shows, you could show these people a hello world program and they’d think it was hacking.
Don’t run yourself ragged worrying about malicious intent when plain old incompetence suffices Occam’s Razor
The average politicians may not present themselves as being smart, but the lobbyists, think tanks, advisors that interact with them and influence their behaviour are not dumb. Rather than assuming it’s either malice or ignorance, we can instead opt for a more middle ground assumption: it’s both malice and ignorance, symbiotically feeding off each other.
See I honestly think it’s because they’re so old that they genuinely don’t understand that issue
They’re going after TikTok because foreign ownership of a National Security related industry gives them Red Scare flashbacks
Most of the leadership are people who went through the Cuba-Turkey missile crisis, and it fucking shows, you could show these people a hello world program and they’d think it was hacking.
Don’t run yourself ragged worrying about malicious intent when plain old incompetence suffices Occam’s Razor
The average politicians may not present themselves as being smart, but the lobbyists, think tanks, advisors that interact with them and influence their behaviour are not dumb. Rather than assuming it’s either malice or ignorance, we can instead opt for a more middle ground assumption: it’s both malice and ignorance, symbiotically feeding off each other.
Congress people are paid to be ignorant and lobbyists are paid to keep them that way.