On: House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chines...

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Should the Iranians and the Chinese think in the same manner? Isn't this largely a question of how much you trust the official narrative of the local elites?

[JumpCrisscross → dauertewigkeit]

> Should the Iranians and the Chinese think in the same manner?

Yes, and they do.

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China has banned YouTube, twitch, wordpress, medium, etc.

[JumpCrisscross → LordKeren]

> China has banned YouTube, twitch, wordpress, medium, etc.

Also TikTok! ByteDance operates a separate app in China [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok#Douyin

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Isn't it an education app in China?

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> Domestic spyware masquerading as social media is bad, but foreign spyware and propaganda masquerading as social media is unquestionably worse.

The former is unquestionably worse and a far greater threat to citizens of this country than anything TikTok does.