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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•1 month agoYes, and that’s why US companies aren’t banned by the US. The foreign power having so much propaganda power was the danger.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink13•1 month agoSo if an American company collects user data and sells it on the open market to a hostile foreign nation, and accepts money to run propaganda, that’s A-OK?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•1 month agoThat capitalism baby! I suppose Congress can at least control who Facebook et al. are selling to through sanctions and such.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 month agoThey could but they haven’t, so this ban is just racist economic protectionism.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-21 month agoI’m not sure what race has to do with economic protectionism, but it’s really a combination of all of the above.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•1 month agoIf I wanna get my propaganda from more than one world power, that’s my right under the first amendment. Or it was.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 month agoSame reason why China bans a shitload of sites. It’s fine when you do it to your own citizens
Yes, and that’s why US companies aren’t banned by the US. The foreign power having so much propaganda power was the danger.
So if an American company collects user data and sells it on the open market to a hostile foreign nation, and accepts money to run propaganda, that’s A-OK?
That capitalism baby! I suppose Congress can at least control who Facebook et al. are selling to through sanctions and such.
They could but they haven’t, so this ban is just racist economic protectionism.
I’m not sure what race has to do with economic protectionism, but it’s really a combination of all of the above.
If I wanna get my propaganda from more than one world power, that’s my right under the first amendment. Or it was.
Same reason why China bans a shitload of sites. It’s fine when you do it to your own citizens