Lawmaker: TikTok must "sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."

Lawmaker: TikTok must “sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.”

  • ToxicDivinity [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Any app or any business that is being largely impacted by legislation will ask their customers to push for a favorable outcome. I’ve seen American businesses ask their customers to call Congress about one thing or another a bunch of times. This isn’t “nefarious” or “hijacking a platform” it’s normal business behavior

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      When Anglos do it it’s “100 wholesome chungus capitalism willed by God”; when Chinese folk do it it’s “evil malicious debt-trapping CCP [slur] [slur] [slur] [ARCHAIC slur]”. Feels like an application of the Parenti quote all over again.