Greenwald: For years, U.S. officials and their media allies accused Russia, China and Iran of tyranny for demanding censorship as a condition for Big Tech access. Now, the U.S. is doing the same to TikTok.
Greenwald: For years, U.S. officials and their media allies accused Russia, China and Iran of tyranny for demanding censorship as a condition for Big Tech access. Now, the U.S. is doing the same to TikTok.
canada is not nearly as subtle.
“These moves by the U.S. Security State to commandeer censorship decisions on TikTok, accompanied by the hovering threat to ban TikTok entirely from the U.S.”
This would qualify as a 1st amendment violation. The “hovering threat” is what qualifies it. But I have yet to see proof of anything beyond just reporting social media posts.
Did you verify that with the US Department of Justice?
Sorry Alan S … but … EMERGENCY. Now … all Constitutional rights can be eliminated because EMERGENCY. Do try to keep up with our … “living document”.
Kenji, you can tell how a government views freedom by how it handles dissent in an EMERGENCY. For example, our Prime Minister left the Capital City (with alleged covid), then came back and had participant’s bank accounts frozen and arrested one woman who was refused bail (because it wasn’t a gun charge).
Dissent is a human right. In fact it’s a human right that’s saved more lives than any FAKE vaccine ever has.
Should a serious observer ever excoriate the USG (US Government, my preferred name now for US/America) or any state past or present for hypocrisy.
I have often ranted here that calling out liberals for hypocrisy is trite.
As it is with the USG.
Here is an example of what Glenn means:
https://www.straight.com/news/how-did-a-monument-to-a-nazi-ss-division-end-up-being-erected-in-canada
Yep, Canada, that welcoming country accepting all comers,”….cept if you were a Jewish Refugee Fleeing the NAZI’s in 1939.
MS St Louis with some 254 folks sent back and most all were annihilated at Auswitz, or Treblinka, Sobibor, Bircheneau…take your pick.
YOUR party of kindness: LIBERALS.
Canada also voted against the partition of Palestine at the UN after the war to try and block the creation of a Jewish state.
Ukrainians in the world war, Japanese in part two, war measures act (a little barn burning never hurts) EMA
The fascist is never far away in Canada and always of a leftist bent.
Yeah, except… it’s a bit different.
The issue here is that TikTok is being used by the Chinese government for espionage. That’s not a censorship issue, it’s a security one. (And a national security matter when it comes to government employees and devices.)
Now, maybe the U.S. government is guilty of doing the same thing with domestic social media platforms, I don’t know. But on the surface, he’s comparing apples to oranges here.
Everything I’ve seen from Tik Tok is asinine pap.
If the government wants to prohibit employees from using the App they can. Just fire the first 1000 who do use it on their government issued phone and that will be the end of it.
If they’re trying to ban it country wide, well good luck.
“The issue here is that TikTok is being used by the Chinese government for espionage.”
And that’s Google’s job.
They (US alphabet angencies) don’t like Tik Tok because they can’t get access to the servers, which are located in China. They can’t spy, censor or influence like they do with the US social media servers.
That really is the issue.
You can bet the Chinese are spying, censoring and influencing with TikTok, but, as they say, its their platform, and they can do what they want with it.
All your data is base! Or something…
So, gov’t employees use TikTok.
This could be a problem.
Like gov’t employees playing with barbie dolls on their breaks could be a problem, but the barbie dolls ain’t the problem, and taking away their barbie dolls ain’t gonna fix the employees.
Just Ban the entire Tik Tok platform. Problem solved. No censorship required.
And if we had to ban google to make it look like we are trying to be fair wouldn’t that be delightful?