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  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldMaybe someday
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    1 day ago

    I think that it was less: let’s find alternatives, than it was fuck you government TikTok isn’t Chinese enough. It was a direct answer to the government telling us which social media apps we were allowed to use. Also, 100% avoidable if they’d passed data protection instead. It really felt like the government enforcing private interests on its citizens.

    Americans typically don’t like the government telling us what to do. It’s all fine if Facebook buys all the competition, but it’s another thing when the government makes the competition illegal because they won’t sell to zuck or musk.

    Honestly, Redbook was sort of neat. I doubt it has much staying power as it was really just a protest, but it was sort of a historical feeling moment.












  • “Everyone is a psychopath like me therefore anything virtuous is disingenuous.”

    I kind of think a certain amount of money makes you… Inhuman for a lack of a better word. Not only not playing the same game as the rest of us, but so far removed that they don’t remember the rules.

    Like we’re all a part of something together, but when you get to a certain point of wealth (or more likely in order to get to a certain point of wealth) the rest of humanity are just things that give you wealth and not beings such as yourself.