• Buttons@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    The people are helpless lemming that mindlessly follow the algorithm, am I right?

    Is free speech a moral principle we believe in? I know the Constitution doesn’t apply to everyone in the world, which is why I’m asking whether we believe in it morally, not legally.

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      6 months ago

      This has nothing to do with free speech. And yes, 90% of the people out there, including kids, log into tiktok and get a hone page for whatever content China wants to sling, of that’s to turn group A more right and group B more left, or to push their own agendas. People just don’t look at thongs objectively and tend to follow what they see. This is a security risk for the entire country.

      It’s not stifling free speech, and blocking content for the sake of blocking content that they’re talking about here. Is it moral to block influence like that? Yes.

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      6 months ago

      The Constitution absolutely applies to everyone within the US borders and TikTok US division is run out of Los Angeles.