What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet
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Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.
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Are you kidding? China has some of the strongest censorship laws in the world which includes filtering internet content and blocking access to apps. North Korea is the only country that has more repressed access to free information.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China
The Chinese government has banned, among others, Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, BBC, Wikipedia and ... are you ready for this ... TIKTOK. The Chinese government agrees that TikTok should be banned (though for different reasons).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_mainland_China
I was not talking about censorship. I was talking about technological advancements.
But you have a fair point as this post is about censorship.
How is banning TikTok "limiting technological advancements"?
Would you agree that I was able to provide examples of "China doing the same" which you stated that you "did not see"?
I was not talking about tiktok. I was talking about them banning sale of high performance gpus to china
Don't know anything about the specific situation about GPUs, but I do know that I'm not allowed to purchase an affordable Chinese EV in the US...