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This is what I was worried about with tiktok being banned.
I don't have a tiktok. I don't like the concept. I won't be joining loops. I just don't like the core concept.
Now add in that it's a chinese spying tool, and I'm all the way out.
Buuuuuuut it does pose a tricky situation. Ban it, and set a precident that banning social networks is ok. Maybe they ban the fediverse next. We all know this country is run by billionaires and big business. We all know that the onlu reason tiktok is banned is because it competes with X, and Elon is basically president now.
So what stops them from banning the fediverse? Every single instance is now illegal. And since the fediverse is so unknown, it's not like there would be much pushback politically.
So. Ban the chinese spy tool, or defend net nuetrality?
how would you ban any internet service without firewalls or routing? DNS bans are trivial to bypass and maybe I'm not thinking hard enough but I'm out of practical ways to prevent access to Twitter or meta.