At what point is the cost of moving platforms/countries so great that it becomes a human rights violation?
That happened here once in the States... with Tik-Tok! The Trump Administration didn't like prank a bunch of Tik-Tok users played at a Trump Rally and tried to get Tik-Tok banned over it. 1A violation, right there. That's why they're still here.
If country, a collection of people with a common identity, decided they did not want TikTok in their country, it is their right to exclude it from their own country, right?
If it's a democracy, sure. Pakistan sometimes is, sometimes isn't (but really never is; more on that later).
Of course, if a Pakistani doesn't like the decision of the government, they can just move to another country, right?
Usually not. Instead they have to either get elected or start a revolution, and if they lose, they're dead. Not a lot of people think access to TikTok is worth those stakes.
At what point is the cost of moving platforms/countries so great that it becomes a human rights violation?
In Pakistan's case, that point was reached a century ago. And retreated from, and returned to, and retreated from, repeatedly. Pakistan has military coups as a hobby, and oddly enough tends to do better under them. It has bee
Wait until they hear about this thing called 'the internet'.
At what point is the cost of moving platforms/countries so great that it becomes a human rights violation?
That happened here once in the States... with Tik-Tok! The Trump Administration didn't like prank a bunch of Tik-Tok users played at a Trump Rally and tried to get Tik-Tok banned over it. 1A violation, right there. That's why they're still here.
If country, a collection of people with a common identity, decided they did not want TikTok in their country, it is their right to exclude it from their own country, right?
If it's a democracy, sure. Pakistan sometimes is, sometimes isn't (but really never is; more on that later).
Of course, if a Pakistani doesn't like the decision of the government, they can just move to another country, right?
Usually not. Instead they have to either get elected or start a revolution, and if they lose, they're dead. Not a lot of people think access to TikTok is worth those stakes.
At what point is the cost of moving platforms/countries so great that it becomes a human rights violation?
In Pakistan's case, that point was reached a century ago. And retreated from, and returned to, and retreated from, repeatedly. Pakistan has military coups as a hobby, and oddly enough tends to do better under them. It has bee