More proof for anyone who needs it about the aims of the TikTok ban -
We want proud American censorship, not commie Chinese ones
We want proud American censorship, not commie Chinese ones
I’ll be charitable and assume your point is “any corruption is so unbelievably awful that we might as well have the worst possible form of it if we have any at all.”
Vs the local govt that has a monopoly on violence
Because foreigners are even less accountable to Americans and even less interested in their well being than any domestic group? It just stands to reason, there's not even the weak ties of being members of the same group.
I mean, to be a little outlandish: if there was a conflict, and some foreign adversary could transmit a mind virus to Americans that would cause them to go on murderous rampages and kill everyone, they'd probably do it. It'd be an instant win, and there'd be some sweet, sweet land to colonize afterwards.
If we ignore murder mind viruses and look at what's actually going on.
That is not necessarily true. The Hitlers and Putins of the world will happily sacrifice their own citizenry and their country's future for more power in the moment. It's entirely possible for some foreigners to hold more goodwill towards a country than its own leadership.
> I mean, to be a little outlandish: if there was a conflict, and some foreign adversary could transmit a mind virus to Americans that would cause them to go on murderous rampages and kill everyone, they'd probably do it. It'd be an instant win, and there'd be some sweet, sweet land to colonize afterwards.
Several countries are entirely capable of doing this with nukes.
Don't you think they'd be even more willing to sacrifice Americans or other foreigners?
> Several countries are entirely capable of doing this with nukes.
No, and you're kind of missing the point, which was the adversarial leader cares less about foreigners. Also: nukes are somewhat controlled with MAD, and they'd spoil that sweet, sweet land with fallout.
I'm saying I'd rather, say, France's Macron calling the shots here than an American-born version of Hitler.
> Because foreigners are even less accountable to Americans and even less interested in their well being than any domestic group?
In my example, the foreign group probably has my well being as a higher priority than the domestic one.
What one censors the other doesn't, and you get less censorship when there are more options available.
It seems like your entire argument here is just vague sinophobic hand-waving. Do you have even a single example of TickTock/CCP harming American youth that hasn't been done worse by US social media and government?
To be clear, I'm not arguing that China is better than the US in any general way, I'm specifically making the claim that American government and social media harms Americans more than any other government or social media harms Americans.
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