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0 pointskube-system5y ago0 comments

> They would need to explain how TicTok brainwashes americans to vote(or not vote) but Facebook and Twitter categorically does not do the same thing.

The easiest answer is: because ByteDance said so.

ByteDance has a internal board staffed by the CCP, and their CEO Zhang Yiming has even:

> promised that the firm would in the future “Further deepen cooperation with authoritative [official party] media, elevating distribution of authoritative media content, ensuring that authoritative [official party] media voices are broadcast to strength.” [0]

> If "brainwashing" on social media exists then all should be made illegal not only the a small subset.

The US, like almost every other country, regulates international commerce differently than domestic commerce. The US intentionally makes it harder to regulate domestic matters in order to protect the rights of the people the government is tasked with protecting. They even go so far as having separate agencies responsible for domestic matters vs foreign matters.

[0]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/16/bytedance-cant-outrun-b...

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simion3145y ago

And what prevents some political party you don't like just use money to buy data from FB directly , or if getting the data is harder this days use the ad targeting and get same result that you don't like(make some people stay at home and not vote for your favorite and mobilize the guys in the group you don't like)

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