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New comment by ttrgsafs in "Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown"

ttrgsafs — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:27:21 +0000

So what are the real dangers?

- Frying teenagers' brains with short attention deficit videos. That one seems logical, but others are doing it, too.

- Political indoctrination.

- Compromised politicians who can be blackmailed: The big one, but a certain island run by the daughter of a certain intelligence agency operative was largely ignored.

- Corporate espionage: Probably not happening on TikTok. Certainly happening in the EU using US products.

New comment by ttrgsafs in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

ttrgsafs — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:19:04 +0000

But the US is a foreign adversary of the EU who has ruined the EU economy in the last three years and wants to wrestle away Greenland.

Half joking, but the US performs corporate espionage in the EU and certainly takes compromising material on EU politicians whenever it can get it.

The slavish adherence from EU NPC politicians (they are mediocre and no one knows how they manage to rise) to US directives has to have some reasons. Being compromised is one of those.