Not like a full-on conspiracy or anything but I wouldn't say it's beyond the pale for that kind of conversation control to be SOP for some groups somewhere.

Also, we already know that many foreign countries have intentionally hired people to do specifically that.

So this whole thing is utterly stupid

This fake hysteria over drones is even worse, considering that the drones don't have the means of sending arbitrary data to remote servers.

It's incredible that people will say this with a straight face, then export Instagram to the rest of the world and proceed to cry "Free Speech" when Meta bans come on the table.

It's incredibly hard for me to square if the concern is "ByteDance is the bigger threat to the US" or if the concern is "ByteDance is the bigger threat to my stock portfolio"

And the one I had was more of a toy than a real one with kilometers of range