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It's the same fake argument every time they try to take away your rights (lemmy.ml)
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[–] borari@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

It is not about preventing foreign or private influence that his harmful to the citizens. It is about controling that influence.

No, it is about preventing foreign influence on citizens. The fact that some level of control (or more accurately accountability) can be exerted by the US government on companies like Meta is true but unrelated. If ByteDance was a company in the EU we wouldn’t be having this conversation.