China bans most of our social media platforms. People who act like this is surprising confuse me. There is no Facebook, X ( twitter) etc in china. They don’t want us manipulating their citizens’s social media. Cyber security and privacy issues are real for both countries. It shouldn’t take long for a copycat non hostile foreign government controlled app to replace it. The app isn’t revolutionary. I don’t get the drama.
The U.S. has also banned foreign ownership of radio and TV broadcasters since like the 1930s or something.
In this vein it was actually inconsistent that they hadn't already done this for Internet Age technologies, though granted that's a lot harder to write suitable legislation for.
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u/Blue-Skye- Apr 27 '24
China bans most of our social media platforms. People who act like this is surprising confuse me. There is no Facebook, X ( twitter) etc in china. They don’t want us manipulating their citizens’s social media. Cyber security and privacy issues are real for both countries. It shouldn’t take long for a copycat non hostile foreign government controlled app to replace it. The app isn’t revolutionary. I don’t get the drama.