The Ellison duo taking over both CBS and CNN, as well as controlling a major social media network like TikTok, would be dangerous for democracy.
  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    11 hours ago

    We’ll still hear the conservatives bleating about this so-called “liberal media” I’ve been hearing so much about.

  • ckmnstr@lemmy.world
    18·
    17 hours ago

    Has any of this been confirmed on the chinese side? All I can find is White House claims that a “deal is close”…

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      29·
      17 hours ago

      At this point, truth is nowhere to be found near the white house, thats for sure.

  • Photuris@lemmy.ml
    822·
    11 hours ago

    Time to get our friends back on Red Note / 小红书.

    Yes, the Communist Party of China might have access to some of your data. But we don’t live in China, so who gives a shit if they know I always stop scrolling and watch that lumberjack guy, because I think his posts are dope? Yeah, I also love those “people in China in natural settings doing old school traditional stuff” posts.

    I’d honestly rather the CPC, for all their flaws and awful authoritarianism, have some of my browsing data than those creepy fucks Zuck or Ellison have it at this point, because what Ellison wants to do affects us directly here at home in the “Land of the Free.” “Privacy is dead” Ellison has long dreamt of an overbearing eyes-everywhere authoritarian state that could put China’s to shame by comparison, if he gets his way.

    China, for all her flaws and terrible human rights violations, at the very least does manage to keep her billionaires in check, and that’s a good thing. We should figure out how do the same (but leveraging democracy and without the authoritarianism and ethnic cleansing - I’m still a naïve idealist despite the horrors of the past nine years I guess).

    • Carmakazi@lemmy.world
      15·
      9 hours ago

      Red Note banned a lot of people for wrongspeak during that exodus. Westerners are used to speaking their minds online for better or worse.

      Speaking of banning, saying the “CPC” is awfully authoritarian and all that shit would normally be a permabanning offense in .ml, but I’m willing to bet that the admins will let it slide because you’re disingenuously pushing Chinese influence on the libshit gweilo.

      • Photuris@lemmy.ml
        35·
        9 hours ago

        Lol nah, I didn’t know that Lemmy instances had deeply entrenched and divisive political cultures when I signed up for it. I was told to “pick an instance,” so I did.

        Anyway, I didn’t know Rednote banned a lot of exodus people, but I am aware that it pushes a ton of propaganda. It’s so blatantly transparent, though.

        I just happen to think that Larry Ellison (and the rest of the American Tech Oligarchs, Yarvin acolytes and the like) is a more direct, imminent, immediate threat to American liberty than the Chinese government or mainland Chinese companies right now. It’s not a “China good, America bad” tankie take. Of course if I lived in China or Taiwan I’d have a different take I’m sure.

        Ellison taking Tik Tok is chilling. Yarvinite ultra-MAGA plans for America are terrifying. Chinese propagandists just want to tell us all how good China is. They can’t enact or enforce laws here.

        • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          5 hours ago

          They can’t enact or enforce laws here.

          The has been Chinese Nationals working for the CCP harassing the overseas Chinese Diaspora. As a Chinese American, I dont wanna become a target for harassment because they view me as a “汉奸” (“han traitor”).