National security threat?

So how come Twitter ain’t shut down then?

People are already moving to rednote.

are you even taking this seriously? did you not even comprehend what I said or are you just blindly responding hoping for a “gotcha”?

That aint a “gotya”, that’s proof it has nothing to do with preventing foreign interests from influencing anything. Because we have a foreign interest influencing it already: Musk.

not obvious, and just because you say it with more conviction doesn’t make it true.

So, we have other large social media networks, that are rife with foreign influence, that already influence the US’s internal politics… But yet, banning tiktok was to prevent it from happening?

Its either true, or its not. And in this case, its not true. The sole reason was to keep China specifically, and it only arose because people in the US were learning about shit that US supports. Which the US doesn’t want.

by that logic, then you’re just as guilty for allowing them to do nothing. so what gives you the right to complaint about it if you haven’t done anything to stop them?

Except, they’re not trying to stop foreign influence. They are trying to stop one country, and they only took notice because of news that is damning to the US.

there are so many reasons why but you’re just too emotional and inexperienced to see them, but I’ll point out a couple just so you can see how absurd you’re being.

And… with all your excuses… How come nothing is being done still? Its not new that Elon is a fascist. And it’s not new that Elon is in bed with several foreign interests that are hostile to the US… In fact, its at least 6 years old news at this point.

But tiktok. home of the Pro-Palestinian content is what is being gone after now. Not the Fascists running Twitter, or Facebook… Wonder why that is? Could it be their political donations?

strawman gonna strawman.

Hardly a strawman! We have a major social media company in the US, that is controlled by a foreigner, for their own, and for foreign interests, and impacting our elections with measureable results.

So, obviously, this move wasn’t done to prevent such a thing from happening, just to prevent certain countries from doing it.

you act like it’s the current administration that let’s Elon do whatever he does, but it’s the incoming administration (Trump) that is allowing that.

Our current admin has done nothing to stop it, and therefore allowing it.

Why are all the US Gov accounts STILL on Twitter?

to protect the people from outside influence and to protect national defense.

Thats just not true, otherwise we wouldn’t be welcoming a South African who illegally immigrated to the US and has some serious international conflicts-of-interests with US interests control a major social media platform.

One thing I saw was lacking in the comments here are some alternatives (Some were named, more self-hosted options, which can be good for a person, but not always)…

RiseUp.net and Disroot.org both are ran by collectives, and both protect your privacy. RiseUp has a log of how they’ve done so, as well.

Scummy used car salesmen, and lack of consumer protections in the US.

hes a fellow human who if shown the light would absolutely change his tune.

Thats not always true… That old man stuck on Fox News would likely rather shoot a bunch of brown people than admit he was wrong.

I am good with computers but not good enough to roll my own entire email/calendar/cloud storage system

NextCloud is almost an “out of the box” experience for all of these.

Exactly. Zucc was always a POS. I mean, FB got its start so he could rate the “hotties” on campus…

Steam users are not the “average user”… they are the “average gamer”.

The average person has a phone, with 128gb of storage.

The typical laptop I deal with have 512gb ssd drives.

The typical desktop in a corporate environment is 256gb or 512gb.

1tb drives are very much not “average”.

Hello friend…

I see you…

Acquiring target…

Good night.

Correct about security. Unable to inspect the code running, unable to control your own device fully, and really secure at keeping the user out of their hardware.

And for apps shipped in containers? No need to be a part of the FLOSS community, because you can easily ship software to your users that provides no freedoms.

So, you cannot or will not answer. Got it.

Why do you think all phone makers push it?

Who is mostly pushing these containerized apps?

Proprietary software vendors.

Same for who stands the most to benefit from immutable distros. Like Android and MacOS get shipped.

If you trust it, why not just install it like a y other app?

Oh wait, it’s generally pushed for binary only blobs, no source… so why are you even trusting it?

Spoiler: Russia did the same thing in .ost of those regions, too.

Hell, they just did a speed run of Afghanistan, before we did… hence the nickname “Graveyard of Empires”.

Thats a whole lot of heavy assumptions, doing some really heavy lifting.