The USA thinks it can just pull wool over people's eyes over ByteDance ownership. What the USA wants is the technology of Tik Tok that is eating the breakfast, lunch and dinner of USA's domestic apps like Meta, Twitter and Youtube, which does not provide a platform for truthful news and vloggers are censored talking about the genocide in Gaza.
If Tik Tok goes under the control of the USA, being sold to a USA company, it will have to follow the censorship regime like Meta, Twitter and Youtube. It will basically be a lame duck app. That is why, whether Tik Tok gets banned eventually or sold to a USA company, most Tik Tok refugees are saying they want to remain on Rednote.
What the USA will do is also to ban Rednote down the road using the same narrative that it is a National Security Issue, being a truly China-centric app, more so than Tik Tok. What does that tell us about a country that touted itself to have freedom in this and that but does not walk the talk. Chinese citizens describe such freedom as without choice.
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What is the point now that USA citizens are aware of what is happening in China as compared to what they are experiencing in the USA. Trying to censor the media will only make USA citizens more determined to find out the truth, now that they have tasted blood.
The truth is, will USA citizens now continue to believe the USA Government and MSM even if it tries to censor everything. Trying to close the stable doors after the horses have bolted is a useless endeavor. The USA Government and MSM have already lost the people's trust and has little credibility left to make a difference.
Democracy is losing its high ground, preaching about freedom of this and that. Those freedoms are basically without reference to choice. Without choices, what freedom are they gloating about?
If you are not given a choice to buy a cheap car, what is the use of gloating about having freedom to choose. If you cannot say what you want to say, what is the point of having freedom of speech?
Let us talk about having the right to vote, when voters are given a 'Hobson's Choice' that is practically no choice at all. What is the use of having the freedom to criticize the Government, when such criticisms are just ignored - in the right ear and out the left. Have there been noticeable changes in the USA, one administration after another, regarding USA debts, homeless issues, drug problems and gun problems? All that is done is one administration kicking the can further down the road for the next administration to do the same. It is just passing the can from one party to the other.
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