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by msie 1179 days ago
I wonder if any of TikTok’s competitors helped create the bill and are now regretting it.
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Big tech doesn't care about your rights. They (along with most others in power) care about suppressing competitors and dissent, and an obedient populace which is not going to hinder their continued rent extraction from society. Using censorship-circumvention tools is a form of dissent, and they would be happy to see the people doing it go to jail.
Meta hired a firm last year (Targeted Victory) to malign TikTok: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/meta-cant-buy-ti...