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0 pointsmunchler1y ago0 comments

> The United States’ foreign foes easily can steal, scrape, or buy Americans’ data by countless other means.

True, but that's not the point.

> Shutting down communications platforms or forcing their reorganization based on concerns of foreign propaganda and anti-national manipulation is an eminently anti-democratic tactic, one that the US has previously condemned globally.

Sorry, that might've been true for old media, but social media is way more insidious.

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beepbooptheory1y ago

So is it that it's not antidemocratic now because of new media, or is it antidemocratic but thats ok because of new media?

munchlerOP1y ago

Probably the latter, if viewed narrowly, but the whole point is to preserve democracy in the end. This ban is the lesser of two evils.

Is chemotherapy not unhealthy now because of cancer, or is it unhealthy but that’s OK because of cancer?

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