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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 87 points 1 day ago (2 children)

imagine making social media so bad your own citizens actively procure your biggest rival's networks.

I think there's a simple desire to move to pastures new. "Use Instagrmam or Youtube Shorts or Snapchat" No, we've been there and done that.

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Imagine allowing citizens to be so free that they can go to your biggest rival's social media to read narratives favouring them, get influenced by rival propaganda, and then shit you on your percieved weak points.

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago

Court Jester mindset.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Perceived weak points, huh? So the brutal genocide of Gaza is just a little whoopsie that we should.move past? Fuck no. This isn't weakness or a mistake, this is America pulling off the mask, and anyone making excuses for it this late in the game is close enough to a fascist as makes no difference.

Imagine allowing citizens to be so free that they can go to your biggest rival's social media

So free that they they banned TikTok and only haven't banned RedNote with it because they overestimated the strength of their anti-China propaganda.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It’s never too late to discard your patriotism to a state that doesn’t give a fuck about you. You don’t owe it your allegiance, be it Burgerland or India or whichever shitty capitalist state.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 1 points 23 hours ago

How does the US ban on TikTok thatbmakes people switch to rednote now fit this description?