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Why does the ban on TikTok matter to so many people?
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I mean, this doesn't allow for any form of ethical analysis, though. Should every drug be legalized? How about gambling?
I'm not saying I am for the TikTok ban persay, but if the only conditionals for whether a product or service should exist are "is it 'well made' and does it make money," we are setting ourselves up to achieve a corporate dystopia rather quickly.
They government should consider what parts of TikTok make it not okay, and target those forms and functions with well reasoned laws. Unfortunately, as you said, I suspect they'll target things that are good and users like, while pretending that the issue is entirely about one small portion of the complete law. Ie, stress that the issue is one of security, and then write a law saying that all social media in the US must be willing to submit it's data to the American government. (To be clear, I have no idea what the actual law they wrote is, but this is the kind of shit I expect them to get up to )
I know it's not really the topic you considered... But yes, I do believe every drug should be legalized. If you consider the benefits alone it should be obvious that it is the correct choice.
Drugs made by lisenced people/locations that use safe ingredients and are open to litigation if they end up making a bad batch.
The revenue collected isn't going to some drug lord overseas, it's going into the country which you live instead.
Dispensaries can be used secondary as a councelling/rehabilitation center.
The long and the short if it is that if people want them, they will get them. I live in a place that hasn't legalized weed yet.. But if you are around certain neighborhoods at around 9am, it starts to smell very obvious that legality doesn't matter. While currently that's not surprising as many states near mine have legalized, we'll before that happened things were exactly the same.
I don't want people to be addicted to drugs, but I don't see why we as a society shouldn't benefit at all from someone who is.
I'm not talking about weed, though. It's been traditionally over policed but that doesn't mean we should stop policing all drugs. There's hardly any sense in saying that severely addictive drugs with visible negative effects on the human body should be sold for recreational use for profit. The majority of opiods are a good example of this.
But more to the point, giving moral purchase to profit justifies the abuse of the consumer. I can't say for certain whether the TikTok ban is government overreach, as I'm not knowledgeable enough on the topic to speak with any authority, but "it makes money, so it's fine" really shouldn't be the end of the conversation.