[jsyang00]

"We are not influenced by any foreign government, including the Chinese government."

It is laughable to suggest that the basis for this ruling is anything less than fear and paranoia about Chinese government softpower. Nothing they could have said, and no fact they could bring to bear, would change the outcome of the court, which has been predetermined, for better or worse, by the current American political climate.

[UltraSane]

Search tiananmen on any app and then on TikTok. It is ridiculous that China can block all these sites but the US can't block TikTok

    Facebook (and Messenger)
    Instagram
    Pinterest
    Twitter
    Blogger
    Tumblr
    Tinder
    Blogspot    
    New York Times
    The Financial Times
    The Economist
    The Wall Street Journal
    Bloomberg
    Google News
    Wikipedia
    YouTube
    Netflix
    Vimeo
    Google Search
    Bing
    Yahoo
    DuckDuckGo
    Messenger (and Facebook)
    WeChat
    SnapChat
    Telegram
    Signal

[llamaimperative]

I'm no fan of TikTok but this is a really shitty argument.

China can do it because China doesn't have the First Amendment, which is, you know, sort of the whole point...

[datavirtue]

That's a hell of a lot of milieu control. Seems they are just trying to prevent an understanding and ultimately a blending of cultures and are effectively controlling language and therefore the people's world view.

[llamaimperative]

Oh no, fear and paranoia about a dictatorial regime with extrajudicial police stations in the US to hunt down family members of domestic political dissidents putting media in front of our children's eyes 24/7 while walking around our streets with space age sensor arrays! Oh no! So unjustifiably fearful!

Who could possibly take issue with such a technology!