The Senate has passed legislation that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers that’s expected to face legal challenges and disrupt the lives of content creators who rely on the short-form video
Read the whole comment chain again. The other guy said ‘it should be ok for Europeans to ban US social media’. I said ‘do it’. And they then replied about totalitarianism.
So the mention of PRISM confused me because I was talking about EU countries banning facebook and Instagram to protect their citizens.
Protecting citizens’ interests is not totalitarian.
If it was about protecting citizens interests, PRISM would have been declared illegal and disbanded, not hushed and expanded.
PRISM is European?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
Read the whole comment chain again. The other guy said ‘it should be ok for Europeans to ban US social media’. I said ‘do it’. And they then replied about totalitarianism.
So the mention of PRISM confused me because I was talking about EU countries banning facebook and Instagram to protect their citizens.