• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Yes, and that’s why US companies aren’t banned by the US. The foreign power having so much propaganda power was the danger.

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      10 days ago

      So if an American company collects user data and sells it on the open market to a hostile foreign nation, and accepts money to run propaganda, that’s A-OK?

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        10 days ago

        That capitalism baby! I suppose Congress can at least control who Facebook et al. are selling to through sanctions and such.

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      10 days ago

      If I wanna get my propaganda from more than one world power, that’s my right under the first amendment. Or it was.

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      9 days ago

      Same reason why China bans a shitload of sites. It’s fine when you do it to your own citizens