Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
The platform isn’t a national security threat, but a challenge to Silicon Valley’s dominance
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Has anybody actually read the bill?
The whole bill is about giving the government power to ban "foreign adversary controlled applications" and there's nothing about the president being able to ban whatever app they want.
The bill defines a foreign adversary as: "a country specified in section 4872(d)(2) of title 10, United States Code":
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The People's Republic of China, including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (China);
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Republic of Cuba (Cuba);
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Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran);
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Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea);
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Russian Federation (Russia); and
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Venezuelan politician Nicolás Maduro (Maduro Regime).
So unless you are on the side of the enemies of the US and want social media apps controlled by them, I don't know why you wouldn't support this bill.
Edit: I think the misunderstanding/misinformation comes from a few places, but ultimately I think it boils down to the fact the bill requires the app/platform to be a foreign adversary AND it requires a presidential executive order before the app will be banned.
Those are not my adversaries, they’re the adversaries of US military industrial-complex and the imperial core capitalists in general. One reason they’re a thorn in the capitalists’ side is that they’re unable to exploit them through neocolonialism.
What has Cuba done to me? The reason Cuba has been under an illegal, grinding embargo for sixty years is that they pose the threat of a good example to the capitalist class: Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans
That's fine if you want to believe that, but that's not what the article is about that you posted. The article states that the president will be able to ban ANY non-us application by executive order which is inaccurate.
The executive branch amends the “foreign adversaries” list as it pleases.
unless you are on the side of the enemies of the US
You mean enemies of the US's ruling class of capitalists, who are the working class's allies.
"Your enemies are not our enemies." - Nelson Mandela (who, btw, was on the US terrorist list until 2013 and is/was an enemy of the US. Was Nelson Mandela your enemy?)
You like Russia? Why?
More accurate to say I support Russia's role in geopolitics — as any working class person should — because their interests are broadly aligned with the Global South's in ending the dictatorship that the US — and the Imperial core in general — has had on the rest of the world for the past century (it was mainly the UK before; it's been the US since WW2).
While much of the economic and social progress the USSR had made has been undone with its overthrow and forced privatization and capitalism, Russia's foreign interests have surprisingly remained in favour of the Global South (though unfortunately not as much; they stopped directly funding Vietnam, DPRK, and Palestinian resistance groups since it's not profitable for capitalists). They've consistently supported Syria and Venezuela's sovereignty against the US for example, and are a core part of BRICS.
Just curious what do you think of the invasion of Ukraine?
Btw, the USA is a flawed democracy but it's still a democracy compared to Russia and most of the countries you mentioned.
Also from your link to that weird wiki, why is Greenland not "the global north" when it's owned by Denmark?
An inevitable escalation in the war that started in 2014 with the US-backed fascist coup in Ukraine that goes against the interests and wishes of Eastern Ukrainians
and the subsequent killings of ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine, like Donbas, DPR, and LPR, by the coup gov for resisting.
I don't support the invasion per se. In fact, its goal of suppressing fascism in western Ukraine seems to have kinda backfired from this after all, with the Ukraine gov using this as an excuse to suppress the left.
But the point is, what else could've they done? They’ve already tried to join NATO multiple times from even before the USSR’s overthrow and have been denied (since it's an imperialist org whose entire purpose is to suppress socialism globally, and particularly Russia) and they already had the Minsk agreements which the US sidelined through the coup. Not doing something about it would lead to the continued killing of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, and NATO getting even closer to Russia since the post-2014 US puppet gov doesn’t abide by the Minsk agreements.
Is that why we only have a choice between two rich geriatric whitte men
You obviously have a flawed system but you still have a choice compared to those countries.
And they are not only white men.
This year one of them is orange. Earlier, one of them was a women but you didn't want to vote for her. Why I don't know.
Before that there was a black man.
All of whom are genocidal zionazis who can never go against the US gov's imperialist interests.
The only US president who tried to do something half-decent, JFK, for wanting to abolish the CIA and giving an anti-imperialist speech titled “Imperialism: the Enemy of Freedom” to seemingly curtail the US’s invasions in foreign countries, made himself an enemy of both the political parties, and was thus assassinated by the CIA.
Political systems in the imperial core, specially in the US, only exist to protect capital and imperialism, while giving a thin veneer of “democracy”.
Btw, Putin has an approval rating of over 75% in Russia. Russia is much more of an actual liberal "democracy" than the US, where Trump won despite getting less votes.
If he has such broad approval why do his political opponents keep dying? Why not have an actual election?
While he does seem to genuinely care about Russia — it was under his presidency that alot of the mass capitalist privatizations after the USSR's overthrow were undone and life in Russia started to catch back up to what it was, though it remained capitalist — he's still a liberal. I imagine that's probably because of a mix of wanting to increase his chances of victory even a bit more, and because there's no genuine leftist opposition in Russia right now that would actually improve it (all his genuine oppositions have been far-right so far).
They have freedom to healthcare and I have freedom to go into crushing debt or just rot.
You obviously have a flawed system but you still have a choice compared to those countries.
As a bourgeois democracy we’ve never really much choice electorally.
Princeton University Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
Before that there was a black man.
Michael Hudson on the 2008 Great Recession:
All of these loans were against fictitious mortgages, mortgages that pretended that there was value there, but there were mortgages mainly to Black and Hispanic borrowers by banks who cheated them, who over-evaluated the prices. The banks in general discovered a new way of making money after about 2004. They could make money by charging racial minorities much higher rates, almost double the rates that they charged white people. There were whole banks and brokers that specialized in this, and this was basically the junk mortgage group. Countrywide, Financial was the most obvious beneficiary of this.
There were a number of notorious banks that ended up being merged. Bank of America was one of the crooked banks. Citibank was one of the most crooked banks, as has been very well documented. Randal Wray at the Levy Institute and Kansas City published a big explanation of who were these $29 trillion, $27 trillion of loans for. It ended up many of these loans were rolled over and reloaned, so the net amount was not $27 trillion, but that’s how much was given to the banks with this huge jump. Instead of sending the bankers to jail, they made them billionaires. They rewarded them. That was the Obama policy, and that is what makes them one of the most viciously racist presidents in modern American history.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
undone with its overthrow and forced privatization and capitalism
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I will never really understand why china's on these lists. I know it's because theyre communist and commies = bad, but every other country on their has literally vowed to kill Americans, while china's biggest crime is making close to as much money as we do.
china's biggest crime is making close to as much money as we do.
Nah man, I'm pretty sure the Tiananmen square massacre was a bigger crime. Not to mention their genocide of the Uighur people, their oppression of Hong Kong, their attempts to steal Taiwan's sovereignty.
ETA: big thanks to OP for so clearly and concisely showing they're a tankie.
Nice try CIA
Tiananmen square massacre
- The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
- 1989 Tian'anmen Square riots
- A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
- Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
- ‘Tank Man’: the full footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989
their genocide of the Uighur people
This bullshit never ends, does it?
- https://lemmy.ml/comment/8588979
- A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
their oppression of Hong Kong
Hong Kong was the product of the UK’s century of Chinese oppression, and their 99 year lease on oppressing Hong Kong ended in 1997.
steal Taiwan’s sovereignty
Taiwan is only considered sovereign by eleven countries, most of which are micronations like the Holy See, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan
was a bigger crime
I thought communism was bad because they want to censor our freedoms. So why is the freedoms censoring the comminsists?
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