TikTok CEO Shou Chew issued a stark warning to U.S. users on Wednesday, cautioning that efforts by politicians to ban the social media platform
What does Shou expect from this? Teens storming the Capitol?
Although it is the capitalist class that has power, public opinion still has influence.
The bills (specifically the Restrict Act) give a lot more legal justifications for increasing US spying on citizens and some big punishments if found using methods (such as VPNs) to access apps from foreign adversaries. 20yrs prison and/or $1,000,000 fines. It of course means that the US control over social media (and the communications in them) is kept. Another Patriot Act being pushed while using the smoke screen of “protecting America.”
Even if the above wasn’t part of it. The US government likes to talk about competing in the “free market” with China and other nations instead of with violence/war. But they also pull this shit banning any level of “free market competition.” And will point to China as being the one that is “evil” for restricting shit. The US and Israel are the cause of nations like Cuba not being allowed to be traded with or compete. The US and Israel like to point to the DPRK as being “authoritarian,” but are spying on and purposely causing suffering entirely more than DPRK or China.
The fact that they can’t even correctly pretend to understand even basic facts like Tiktok not being in China. Shows how little they care to hide the real reasons for making the legal setup for much much more oppression inside the US. They feel that they have sufficiently created stupid masses that just believe them without question. Which is sadly true for so many people in either party. Though maybe the politicians of the US will have finally FAFO if gen-Z literally arms up and goes hunting.
