Regarding social media, US allows nearly everything because nearly everything is made there. Or might I say "allowed"? China is the same: they allow everybody in, as long as they play by their rules. The main difference is US being responsible for many massacres worldwide, and China being chill. Worth mentioning the incarceration data comparison aswell..
China's rules are so far fromthe US's that I feel like your comment is distracting from the main point. China doesn't "let everything in," they let nearly nothing in. They are extremely insular. Maybe many companies made most of the the social media sites as you mentioned but that also maybe a direct result of China's extreme grip on the allowed sites there. You can't just pop up a new social media site there without extreme scrutiny from the Chinese government. That's why there aren't that many social media platforms there.
China is only smart. Third-world countries around the world should follow suit. Why allow for foreign companies that only have profit in mind without any regards to real life to operate freely? Why leave so much cash and data on the table? "Free market" and "free press" and "free speech" are only fantasies used when they are interesting.. The "american dream" is clearly only designed for americans and american companies.
"Leaving cash and data on the table" just indicates that you think any of this should be bought and sold. It's a social network, not a "sell people's private data network". I want to socialize online without forking over all my private data to the highest bidder. As an American, I don't think anyone associates The American Dream with data privacy. It's about having a standard notion of a desired family and house and pet and job. I think you are conflating many ideas we have. Just because all those ideas haven't been achieved or aren't implemented well in the modern tech world doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for them. An authoritarian state that dictates what is allowed and hords and sells data is certainly not the answer.
USA in the most authoritarian state in the world, mate. Also the most belligerent and disrespectful of sovereignty. The american dream is only a propaganda piece.
You can get disappeared in China, even billionaires like Jack Ma. Go talk crap about politics there and see how long you last. They harvest organs and decided to crush the Hong Kong people. The USA has many problems but very objectively speaking, the USA is far less authoritarian than China.
