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The last panel applies to every other social media, just replace the spying country.
Yes, and that's why US companies aren't banned by the US. The foreign power having so much propaganda power was the danger.
Same reason why China bans a shitload of sites. It's fine when you do it to your own citizens
If I wanna get my propaganda from more than one world power, that's my right under the first amendment. Or it was.
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?
That capitalism baby! I suppose Congress can at least control who Facebook et al. are selling to through sanctions and such.
They could but they haven’t, so this ban is just racist economic protectionism.
I'm not sure what race has to do with economic protectionism, but it's really a combination of all of the above.
Lemmy begs to differ
There are multiple instances pushing propaganda and most data can just be scraped by bots. It may be harder, but capitalism finds a way.
The multiple instances:
The last panel also hurts us - fellow non-americans :(
Right? Now do Facebook.
That last part is becoming less and less relevant .... someone is spying but it isn't for the benefit or under the control of a country. More and more, the spying is meant more for the purposes of commerce and finance, for money and control. For business interests which is what major governments mainly represent.
surveillance capitalism…
At this point, the line between business and government in the US is almost non-existent, so definitely still a government using your data for the propaganda machine.
Reminds of my favourite description of the US ....
"The US isn't a country, it's a corporation with a military"
And it doesn't matter who or why, either - as soon as someone hoards other people's data, someone else will try to steal it.
And as soon as the government wants it, most companies hand it right over.