I’m not sure why you keep pursuing this circular debate. My entire point has been it doesn’t matter if it’s a foreign app or not if the government has no desire to control domestic social media due to the fact that the billionaires who own it are directly responsible for electing said government.
You keep bringing up the ability to bring them to heel like it’s in any way relevant when I’ve seen no evidence of meta or X in any way being forced to moderate their platforms - in fact the opposite has been proven abundantly true in the last 10 years. Stop trying to rely on “well maybe a foreign app might be harder to control hypothetically, despite the fact that American apps are completely uncontrolled”. It’s irrelevant to the reality of the situation we have now and therefore a flimsy excuse to protect domestic billionaires interests.
I didn’t wish a circular debate. You engaged in one, retreading things already said (by me no less) right at the start. It’s baffling.
You keep bringing up the ability to bring them to heel
You were arguing about the ability. That’s probably why… lol. The whole thing is really simple. American government would rather deal with local companies that they can exert more power over, had they the inclination to do so. Makes them more at ease.
It was never about ability, you brought it up and I countered with the fact that ability means nothing if you don’t enforce it… Aaaaaaand then you brought up ability again like it’s relevant.
I think you can sum our sides of the argument up with: who do you think is in charge - Trump or Elon?
Are we still arguing about if the American government has a better ability to control local or foreign companies?
The ability and the will are two entirely different things.
Right, and that was brought up very early on by me, but the argument was about ability
Ability is immaterial if you don’t have the will to exercise it.
It’s like I’m talking with a golden retriever
I’m not sure why you keep pursuing this circular debate. My entire point has been it doesn’t matter if it’s a foreign app or not if the government has no desire to control domestic social media due to the fact that the billionaires who own it are directly responsible for electing said government.
You keep bringing up the ability to bring them to heel like it’s in any way relevant when I’ve seen no evidence of meta or X in any way being forced to moderate their platforms - in fact the opposite has been proven abundantly true in the last 10 years. Stop trying to rely on “well maybe a foreign app might be harder to control hypothetically, despite the fact that American apps are completely uncontrolled”. It’s irrelevant to the reality of the situation we have now and therefore a flimsy excuse to protect domestic billionaires interests.
I didn’t wish a circular debate. You engaged in one, retreading things already said (by me no less) right at the start. It’s baffling.
You were arguing about the ability. That’s probably why… lol. The whole thing is really simple. American government would rather deal with local companies that they can exert more power over, had they the inclination to do so. Makes them more at ease.
It was never about ability, you brought it up and I countered with the fact that ability means nothing if you don’t enforce it… Aaaaaaand then you brought up ability again like it’s relevant.