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Zuckerberg’s censorship claims were ‘misleading’ — EU tech chief
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg was not telling the truth when he said the European Union was institutionalizing censorship, the bloc’s top tech official said.
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“We know that it’s not true,” European Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen told POLITICO. “In Europe freedom of speech is one of our fundamental values and it’s also respected and protected [in] our Digital Services Act. So it’s very misleading also to say that.”
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https://www.politico.eu/article/mar...rkkunen/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social
 
Raoul said:
In summary: The US and China are adversaries and are each quietly preparing for conflict with one another by 2030 because that is the general timeframe when the US thinks Xi will attempt to move on and annex Taiwan, thereby drawing the US and China into conflict.

There are currently something like 170m US Tik Tok users who are uploading their data to the platform on a daily basis, and the US government and military don't want that data to be accessible to the CCP by way of their control of Tik Tok, because its parent company ByteDance is a Chinese company headquartered in Beijing, which means the CCP can access the data of 170m Americans by way of the Chinese National Intelligence law and do whatever it wants with it. This is especially problematic because a big war between China and the US would largely be executed from Space and Cyber and the US government doesn't want to give the CCP such a massive advantage.
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This is a very weak argument. First, I don't believe that both China and the US will choose strictly dominated, sub-optimal strategies. I also don't think even if China did somehow harvest that data it would cause any meaningful problems. As I said, for personal security, Facebook is by far the biggest personal security threat and its not even close. And that comes from "ethical hackers" I've spoken to (one employed by the US government and other in the private sector). It's frankly a stupid suggestion to think banning Tik Tok somehow helps national security.

Second, and this is my opinion, by far the biggest threat to Western liberal democracy is not an external threat. The biggest threat to the Western liberal democracy order collapsing is internal. It's far-right movements and billionaires that prop them up like Musk. It's climate change deniers like the GOP in America running head first into a brick wall with a blindfold on.
 
Small compared to what Zuck is up to, but another reminder that Bezos forced then to stop endorsing Kamala for president

 
Even not counting the potential threat of TikTok sending Western users data to CCP, TikTok should be banned just because every big software/internet Western company is banned in China.

Even not counting that at this stage the US and China are adversaries, it is hard to compete with China if China bans your companies and you do not ban China’s.
 
Revan said:
Even not counting the potential threat of TikTok sending Western users data to CCP, TikTok should be banned just because every big software/internet Western company is banned in China.

Even not counting that at this stage the US and China are adversaries, it is hard to compete with China if China bans your companies and you do not ban China’s.
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Also the dancing. They should ban it because of the dancing.
 
Revan said:
True. But then they should also ban Instagram because of the dancing. Which I am all for.
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We should just ban social media altogether and force people to go outside every now and then.
 
HTG said:
We should just ban social media altogether and force people to go outside every now and then.
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The last thing boomers want is yoovs on the streets. They want them kept thoroughly out of sight which gives the added bonus of being able to post memes about how when they were kids they used to stay out on their bikes with a playing card in their spokes until the street lights came on.
 
Pexbo said:
The last thing boomers want is yoovs on the streets. They want them kept thoroughly out of sight which gives the added bonus of being able to post memes about how when they were kids they used to stay out on their bikes with a playing card in their spokes until the street lights came on.
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They all played that weird game where they push a hoop with a stick in my mind.
 
maniak said:
Is being extremely insecure a requirement to become successful in tech?
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Zuckerberg is a robot but he always seemed to be one of the sensible tech founder despite being ruthless.
He doesn't need to be saying/doing the things he is saying/doing, so he must believe them.
 
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