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Nepal decides to ban TikTok (kathmandupost.com)
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Nepal decides to ban TikTok::A Cabinet meeting on Monday took the decision to ban the social media app.

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[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

I don't really like Tiktok. But, forcing the choice on people probably isn't the best idea either.

[-] ilikehangers@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

It's CCP spyware. It should be banned everywhere.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

There's plenty of U.S. equivalents. What's your point?

[-] interceder270@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

He's brainwashed into thinking giving Americans his data is better than giving the Chinese.

Must not know about PRISM, lol.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nepalese residents will be infected with the insidious Chinese Mind Virus if they watch too many Chinese girls putting on make-up or C-Pop Boy Bands do the sissy-hypno dance. Then their society will collapse and China will be free to roll in the tanks. This is just like how China conquered the countries of Hong Kong, Tibet, and Tienanmen Square.

[-] Teritz@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

What about American Spy Ware?

[-] bus_go_fast@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Lol you're getting downvoted but I wonder why CCP spyware is so bad, compared to USA spyware. Disappointing on Lemmy you are getting downvoted. For the people downvoting you, it's bad when China does something, but when the US does the same thing, it's totally okay!

[-] interceder270@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Americans have been brainwashed into thinking it's better to get fucked by American companies than companies abroad.

I always know a useful idiot when I see one based on how well they parrot talking points without understanding them.

[-] bus_go_fast@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

They really have. It's amazing when they start talking about the terrible things other countries do, but when I point out that the US does the same thing - oh no that's different!

[-] interceder270@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

You know, in many ways, I think it's something that brings us together.

[-] isles@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

If people could recognize that instead of dividing, we'd have a lot more power to take back what was stolen by governments.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[-] bus_go_fast@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

It's not really a whataboutism. We're trying to understand what the diffence is between the two. US companies have spyware, CCP does too. Why is okay for one, and not the other?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[-] interceder270@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

"I prefer to get fucked by Americans!'

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Team America World Police wasn't a parody.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago
[-] interceder270@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

What do you mean? If the concern is spyware, then that concern exists whether your using American software or Chinese software.

If you don't think the concern is spyware and it's solely China, then don't mention spyware. Say you don't like it because it's Chinese and leave it at that. You'd come across as more genuine.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The problem is both. I support none of them nor their evil efforts.

The difference is that Tiktok is controlled / influenced by the CCP and the other social media networks are controlled by corporate boards of directors. Tiktok is under the influence of evil communists, literally.

[-] bus_go_fast@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

Oh no is the CCP going to arrest me?

[-] Infinity13@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Its about time to ban TikTok. Look what kind of youth have become. Kids doing crazy things for the "fame" of the internet - beating other kids to death, stealing cars, doing drugs, and all minds of illegal stuff just for fun and have lots of "likes". My brother spends hours a day on TikTok he cant keep focused for a long time anymore. I dont trust him anymore because he forgets things all the time now. He is loosing lots of money and now in a huge debts because he was buying things too expensive for him just to upload pics and videos to be "recognised" n stuff... You can say that its my brothers fault, but TikTok and social media is dragging him more than anything. And it happens for a lot of people

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