• 800XL@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There are a million startups chomping at the bit to create or have their existing app become the TikTok replacement in the event it does get banned.

    This is the nature of American Capitalism. A monopolistic entity is broken up for this reason or that thereby making way for competition. According to all those economists, competition is good and breeds innovation.

    I don’t have a problem with this. Next go for Google, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft too.

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      6 months ago

      This isn’t an anti-trust case, it’s just anti-China posturing and lobbying from Meta and friends bearing fruit. Google and Meta will fight for the users and their monopolies will grow even more menacingly bloated

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        6 months ago

        Well, before you declare anti-China posturing, have you considered how China treats Western social media companies? They are completely banned.

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          6 months ago

          China takes a protectionist stance towards many industries, whereas the US claims, not entirely correctly, to be a bastion of free trade. I’m not sure US citizens want their government taking cues from the CCP either

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              Perhaps, but not when you’re supposed to be the bastion of free speech. And while there is the aspect of this being about domestic neerdowells not getting their beaks wet. There’s plenty speech suppression involved as well. I think the stunt ticktok pulled in this case backfired spectacularly. It had been lurking in the background for a while. But it seems they felt urgency after that.

              I’d still have a problem with this even if they shut down sites like stormfront as well. But at least that would be consistently wrong. Not hypocritically wrong.

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      6 months ago

      Next go for Google, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft too.

      That’s the thing though… they won’t.

      This isn’t about competition or security. It’s about funneling profits from one nation to another.

      Say it with me,

      spoiler

      TRADE WAR.

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      6 months ago

      I mean in all honesty if another app takes over TikTok it’ll just be Instagram reels. It’s already got a lot of cross-buy-in.