many seemingly contradictory things can be true:
- tiktok is bad and bad for you (addictive, manipulative, overstimulating)
- tiktok ban is racist and serves US monopolists
- tiktok is not really any worse than those US monopolists, but not better
- tiktok is where a lot of important discourse happens
- musk buying tiktok would kill it
- killing tiktok is good in the long term, but killing it as a place for important discourse is bad in the short term
elle mundy /
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2025-01-14 03:30:36
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2025-01-14 03:30:36Event JSON
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