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Is any form of government regulation of corporate actions fascism in your view?

Where is the line drawn?

This is a clear line and we fought Europe already over this in the last century. There is absolutely no world where we need a group of people telling us how long we are allowed to be on TikTok. It is inexcusable to think this way in a free democracy.

Part of a free democracy is that we get to think in whichever way we want, actually.

Democracy depends on shared rules and institutions that limit what you can do in pursuit of those beliefs. There is certainly a line to be drawn of where our freedoms begin and end. TikTok is nowhere near this

> Democracy depends on shared rules and institutions that limit what you can do in pursuit of those beliefs.

I agree fully. As such, our elected representatives can set those rules, i. e. ban the sale of heroin or algorithmic poisons.

> TikTok is nowhere near this

In a democracy, you don't get to decide that by yourself.

We regulate gambling companies, tobacco companies, and alcohol companies just fine.

I don’t think it’s fascism to add another societal plight to that list

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