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What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet (www.nytimes.com)

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Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.

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[-] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Are you kidding? China has some of the strongest censorship laws in the world which includes filtering internet content and blocking access to apps. North Korea is the only country that has more repressed access to free information.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China

The Chinese government has banned, among others, Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, BBC, Wikipedia and ... are you ready for this ... TIKTOK. The Chinese government agrees that TikTok should be banned (though for different reasons).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_mainland_China

[-] thequantumcog@lemmy.world -4 points 4 months ago

I was not talking about censorship. I was talking about technological advancements.

But you have a fair point as this post is about censorship.

[-] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

How is banning TikTok "limiting technological advancements"?

Would you agree that I was able to provide examples of "China doing the same" which you stated that you "did not see"?

[-] thequantumcog@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I was not talking about tiktok. I was talking about them banning sale of high performance gpus to china

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Don't know anything about the specific situation about GPUs, but I do know that I'm not allowed to purchase an affordable Chinese EV in the US...

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