What state/region and about how long did it actually take?

Better to fake less and mask your political opinions less. "The state should not sanctify what is or isn't a legal business so we should strike all LLC and corporate law from the books. The state should not recognize these as legal entities."

Very disappointed that none of that actually flies.

Social Credit

Its actually most of the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States

Although that's with all the exceptions on the book. It might be easier to get the exceptions in the bible belt.

Also notable: states with zero minimum age using all exceptions CA, OK, NM, MS.

Edit: in 2017 there were 25 states with no minimum age. All 13 states with 18 as the final minimum were applied after 2018. The triggering event seems to be HRW pointing out Afghanistan had better child marriage laws than the US. So this is something that the US is just now coming to terms with.

What were they on the list for to begin with? Sponsoring the ANC?

Nah i wouldn't let that touch the food. It just be for advertising. Like a giant Homer Simpson on my sign.

Maybe I'm naive, but censorship and State propaganda seems to give the US government too much credit.

I never said anything about state propaganda. The "state" doesn't spread propaganda directly through social media like it does through mainstream media. US propaganda does exist on these platforms though but it comes from different interest groups, PR firms, etc.

US politicians can't even protect their own constituents from systems that spread misinformation.

They're not really trying to because a lot of that comes from in-house and isn't seen as a threat to the state. Something like ivermectin disinfo isn't perceived as a threat to the state but too many Luigi memes are. "Protecting US citizens" is not a priority. US censorship regimes on social media however, absolutely do exist but they take the form or cooperation of the business with the state to deprioritize certain content.

The ban is probably because politicians only want American companies exploiting American data for American profit.

Yeah that's probably the main reason for the ban but that's not why it's being given the "national security" excuse. If Temu was actually capable of competing with Amazon in the US then there would absolutely be talks about banning it too and probably come up with other excuses.

There are some legitimate concerns like if someone in the military or DoD has it on their phone it can be used as an attack vector. But so can any Chinese app like Temu and it is mostly handled already by banning them on site. Maybe there were too many grunts posting vids showing off the hardware.

The bulk data they collect can provide all sorts statistical data on the general population but only as a supplement to some other strategy. I wouldn't be surprised if China was collecting this and trying to figure out what to do with it later.

The real reason though - as others have said - is its not subject to the same surveillance and censorship programs as US apps are and that is a very real national security concern for the state. They don't know how many Luigi memes are getting reposted. TikToks data isn't getting fed into prism. If another BLM protest kicks off, TikTok will just let it burn. They could manipulate their algorithm to turn up the heat but its not really necessary.

Many such stackoverflow questions not asked for the same reason.

Are there some stats on it?

A daily fantasy I have is immigrating to China just to sell tacos and cheap frozen margaritas while advertising with the most extreme copyright infringement I can imagine.

The amount of projection with the social credit score is amazing. In reality, the social credit systems were a unified public background checks for people and businesses. There was no score because that's not useful. Neither is the score Americans see. Its just an abstraction so they can tell you how you're doing without exposing the insane amount of data they have on you and how they analyze it.

That is absolutely what is happening. They will take some basic feminist theory and repackage it in the most misogynistic way possible. Its like how early fascists would pervert socialist critiques into their racist theories. Socialist isn't an ascendant force in western society like feminism is.

rubbing on a local instance

Excellent Freudian typo.

I don't think reading is being precieved as feminine so much as young men are fully enmeshed into gaming, streamers, porn, etc. These mediums probably dominate young male consumption and they're extremely decentralized. The only exception is Joe Rogan which is why he's now of national political importance.

I also suspect a big reason why Hollywood is going "woke" is because young women are watching movies and shows but the men aren't.

That's true but I've also heard marketers complain that they're currently one of the hardest demographics to reach through traditional channels. Its like they've folded in on themselves and are marketing themselves in their own echo chamber.