ํƒMar 30, 2023

@riskydotbiz had a take on the #tiktokban that I find interesting.

First off, let's completely ignore the privacy aspect please.

Now, the power aspect. Do we actually want a huge chinese media empire to exist worldwide? Because #tiktok is certainly that.

Now if tiktok actually enabled cultural exchange and friction between China and the rest of the world, that would be a different thing. But China has fully implemented information control. ๐Ÿงต

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#Orwell1984 was never about the privacy. It is about how a dictatorship controls people by giving them only the information that supports a pro-dictatorship world view.

Its super effective and frankly, super scary, if you think it through from the perspective of an individual worker in a society that will not think twice to throw you into the meat-grinder for the greater good.

Mar 30, 2023 at 11:46amWeb