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oddly enough the TikTok referred to here was to be shut down in the US. But then the executive branch ignored the law while it could organize handing the company over to Larry Ellison instead. But these allegations date to when the company was fully under the control of ByteDance, and not US-regulated entities at all.

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> oddly enough the TikTok referred to here was to be shut down in the US. But then the executive branch ignored the law while it could organize handing the company over to Larry Ellison instead

Which should make people think twice when they call for government regulation on speech as a solution to content they don't want other people to see.

The more you give the government power to control speech, the more they'll use those laws to further their own interests.

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