This. Plane and simple. And from my limited interactions with teenagers, no one is missing it. YouTube and Instagram now offer everything needed.
Nothing like freedom of a speech, government oversight etc. etc. the article is trying to portray.
Nothing like freedom of a speech, government oversight etc. etc. the article is trying to portray.
You're free to buy the party line but at least question whether the reasoning makes any sense. Does banning a handful of apps while increasing Chinese investments and imports really aling with the official stand that this was a retaliatory action?
The nasty influence of TikTok outside China has been very clear for a long time. This is part of modern warfare, establishment is only really slow to process this fact. Also because of the misplaced idea that a democratic constitution with a rule of law is something that magically was always there and will forever be there, even if we sit passively down and see people rising that promise to break that constitution down.
Both Google and Meta are in cahoots (tacit compliance) with the Government after they were put through the ban hammer: https://www.zdnet.com/article/india-oks-censoring-facebook-g...
Same for Blackberry: https://theworld.org/dispatch/india/100831/blackberry-resear...
> Nothing like freedom of a speech, government oversight etc. etc. the article is trying to portray.
There's not much freedom of speech in India: Only to an extent you don't ruffle any features and/or aren't influential enough to effect any outcome. Besides, the society itself enforces a crude form of censorship on whatever is taboo or controversial or fringe.