
Ban ‘em
Ban ‘em all.
Get the kids off the Soma and the Victory Gin.
An Australian Senate Committee has recommended banning Chinese social media apps in the land down under, on grounds the Communist Party of China uses them to spread propaganda and misinformation. The Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media yesterday filed its final report [PDF] which outlines the reason …
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There's also a call for social media to "maintain a public library of advertisements on their platform."
Maybe soon online media companies are held accountable for serving scam ads. No, you cannot point to your automatic filtering as an excuse. In comparison TV ads serve orders of magnitude less scam and fraud. What is worse, those ads are targeting vulnerable groups to rob them from their life savings.*
Wasn't Australia the first to introduce uniform packaging for cigarettes? I remember too well how tobacco industry was pushing heavily against those measures.
Let's put (asocial) media companies to where they belong - advertisement business. Likely much less profitable, but properly supervised.
* The Billion Dollar Scam documentary by BBC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6JXZ3GzSCQ
It just smacks of xenophobia and bigotry ( but if that’s what you want to achieve then way to go)
Ban them because they are not compliant with local laws.
Ban them because you cannot trust their data management policies
But above all ban all the others as well that fail to meet the same criteria.
And the world will be a better place,
Can't operate in our country unless you obey our laws. Prove you are willing to comply by exposing yourself legally with a point of presence within our borders.
One wonders why this isn't the SOP for governments trying to protect their populations from predatory multi-nationals.
Would probably solve a few tax-related problems, too.
This is not about privacy for the individual or bad advertising. This is about control of the narrative.
National Security Issue = They are afraid of the influence TikTok and China has over more 'controlled' media sources. They are letting American companies operate because Australia wants to be to be friends with them, but not China.
We can't have an informed population can we?
Instead of burning books, how about educating the population!
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