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But enough about the US intelligence-industrial complex.
The US government isn't in charge of one of the largest social media platforms in the world. US corporations are absolutely doing this as well, but that's an argument for more regulation not to grant China free reign
Exactly this. This is their only argument against it, and it's trash. Yeah, no shit, we know they are all doing it. Yes, we all agree that they should be dealt with as well.
US-run social media apps are pretty much now just arms of the US surveillance state, functioning both as pro-US propaganda machines, and tools to spy on the communications of the entire world.
For example, the most popular social media app in India for example, is facebook. The US controls the main method of news and communication for a country much larger than its own.
Yeah, and...? Does that mean we ignore the one under CCP control because... why? It's not fair?
Also, I'm not questioning the data as it's clearly about when they began collecting data, but that chart looks a little... sketchy. Like you pulled it from your Great Aunt's Facebook feed in 2014. Where is the data from? That does not appear to be any kind of valid source I'm aware of in the corner. When was this made, and how much has changed since then?
Damn didn't know the US Government owned Facebook.
US Government doesn't own AT&T, and yet, they have their fiber splice in AT&T's building, in order to spy on all international communications.
He didn't say the government owned Facebook. Even so, it doesn't need to own it to control the flow of information.
The US intelligence & propaganda machines dwarf those of all other states, just as the US military dwarfs those of all other states. And they don’t only direct it at other countries, they direct it inward, too. “Russiagate” was a domestic psyop directed at its own people, to manufacture our consent to censorship. Hamilton 68: How former intelligence officials and Democratic operatives conspired to manufacture ‘Russiagate’