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I find it pretty telling that the two sides of this argument boil down to:

1. This is a platform owned within China which can easily be used to silently and effectively spread highly targeted propaganda to extremely vulnerable demographics. If it has already been used for this purpose we will never know.

2. They make the most engaging internet junk food and other competitors don’t do nearly as good a job.

Does that about cover it?



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