"There's a lot of damage that gets done by all of this propaganda that tells us that all of our stuff is extremely popular...When the reality is that people agree with Republicans on a lot of things"
Still amazes me that we would never have allowed the Soviet Union to own CBS/NBC/ABC during the Cold War but we let the Chinese Communist Party control the black box algorithm for an app that’s used multiple hours per day by more than 100 million Americans.
The personal data stuff is a red herring (TikTok doesn’t collect any sensitive information). The risks are from the algorithm and content moderation: thedispatch.com/p/the-real-thr…
Me on 8/11/20:
“Even though President Trump may want to force a sale of TikTok for the wrong reasons… it is still the right thing to do given the threat to national security posed by the app’s algorithm and content moderation policies.”
The government decided to let robocall scammers completely overwhelm our telephone system to the point where it’s basically unusable and no elected official seems to care
Endorse every sentence of this from @ezraklein on US foreign policy & militarism:
"You can just give people money. You can give people vaccines. You can let people into our country who want to come here. There are a million things you could do for much less money than wars."
Excerpt is from his recent interview with Robin Wright talking about Afghanistan: nytimes.com/2021/08/27/opi…
Nope, we should just give visas to Hong Kong residents