• scottywh@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Which corporation’s profits do you think banning TikTok is intended to protect?

    Also, “boomer” is a specific group of people and applying that term to everyone who doesn’t agree with you makes it pretty damn silly and meaningless.

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      6 months ago

      YouTube and Instagram have features that are in direct competition with TikTok. YouTube has even been more aggressive in promoting themselves as the TikTok alternative. On top of that the US government has an incentive to keep them (Google and Meta) happy; since the US routinely spies on its own (and other countries) citizens through these companies.

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      6 months ago

      One of the guys that wrote the bill invests heavily in meta and invested even more in March after putting forward the new bill that recently passed to ban it… But I’m sure that’s TOTALLY just a coincidence lmao. Mike McCaul. Not to mention google’s potential benefit for getting rid of a major competitor but they’d never meddle with our government right?

      A boomer is someone that’s out of touch and hateful/distrustful of things they don’t understand. It’s a mentality. If you weren’t a boomer you’d know that