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minus-squareFlexibleToast@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down4·17 hours 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-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 hours agoSame reason why China bans a shitload of sites. It’s fine when you do it to your own citizens
minus-squareAppleTea@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·12 hours agoIf I wanna get my propaganda from more than one world power, that’s my right under the first amendment. Or it was.
minus-squaredylanmorgan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·16 hours 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-squareFlexibleToast@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·13 hours agoThat capitalism baby! I suppose Congress can at least control who Facebook et al. are selling to through sanctions and such.
minus-squaredylanmorgan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoThey could but they haven’t, so this ban is just racist economic protectionism.
Yes, and that’s why US companies aren’t banned by the US. The foreign power having so much propaganda power was the danger.
Same reason why China bans a shitload of sites. It’s fine when you do it to your own citizens
If I wanna get my propaganda from more than one world power, that’s my right under the first amendment. Or it was.
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.