TikTok sued Tuesday to block a US law that could force a nationwide ban of the popular app, following through on legal threats the company issued after President Joe Biden signed the legislation last month.
Especially for real law, you would have to define propaganda which I don’t think has really been done.
I have thought about it and I don’t see why all information isn’t some form of propaganda because you’re either bias on purpose by trying to persuade or bias by what you’re aware of and know which can’t be all information with our tiny human minds.
How do you measure bias without having some objective physical level model of the truth even?
I think the argument against TikTok and other Chinese companies is probably that you wouldn’t allow Facebook by Chinese Communist Party and this crosses the line into that. To be fair though, you could probably ultimately make the same argument for US companies. Why is there so much money available for ads for VPNs compared to the financials of that market? Only a few answers to that one…
Propoganda does have a legal definition though, it’s not nearly as nebulous as all biased information. It does need to be purposefully distorting, either by falsifying information or by withholding relevant information. It also needs to be produced by an organized group or government, just making up nonsense about yourself doesn’t count.
Especially for real law, you would have to define propaganda which I don’t think has really been done.
I have thought about it and I don’t see why all information isn’t some form of propaganda because you’re either bias on purpose by trying to persuade or bias by what you’re aware of and know which can’t be all information with our tiny human minds.
How do you measure bias without having some objective physical level model of the truth even?
I think the argument against TikTok and other Chinese companies is probably that you wouldn’t allow Facebook by Chinese Communist Party and this crosses the line into that. To be fair though, you could probably ultimately make the same argument for US companies. Why is there so much money available for ads for VPNs compared to the financials of that market? Only a few answers to that one…
Propoganda does have a legal definition though, it’s not nearly as nebulous as all biased information. It does need to be purposefully distorting, either by falsifying information or by withholding relevant information. It also needs to be produced by an organized group or government, just making up nonsense about yourself doesn’t count.
Yeah, that’s true-- but all the laws where ‘a reasonable person…’ make me feel like the porn definition “I know it when I see it!”