#american ''free speech'' is a plague to countries that have hate speech - misinformation - defamation and stalking laws

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I'm honestly not surprised. It's the patriot act surveillance part 2: they collect every phone call, emails and post you didn't even send regardless of whether you're in a five eyes country (it's just that five eyes get access to that data to look for political dissidents).

And now that they collect it all for their eyes,

they also want to control what goes out to your eyes.

TikTok is now required to be bought by a US corporation that lets the government and local police tap the server farms not only to surveil the dissidents, but to shut them off, easily get their information, possibly hijack the account for cointel if they're smart (they're not that smart).

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also I have to add that it's been 25 years of having to deal with American "free speech" breaking our broadcast laws and polluting our politics.

To explain the metaphor: swap out holocaust denial for child rape apologists: imagine the social media platforms' country of origin has an age of consent of 14 (well, the USA do have child marriage) and that your country keeps having to beg the platforms to roll out a special feature for your countries where the CSAM posts are censored with a piece of text that says 'illegal in your country' but you can simply change your country of origin in the interface and get all the posts uncensored.

That's pre-Musk Twitter and Facebook since forever: the hate speech fire-hose was barely filtered, we could barely keep up with fining our own far right politicians for each instance of illegal incitation to hatred; getting them actually banned when they hadn't broken the American first amendment required jumping through legal hoops.

Then during the pandemic, social media users were out and about getting people killed while claiming they had "rights" under the law (USA law) that did not apply to that country, let alone that epidemic crisis level. Then they rioted when they found out the local law was different.

Never want to hear about muh CCP censorship/Great Firewall of China ever again lol