I said it's not an issue the vast majority of the public really cares about, which is true.
US lawmakers introduce bill to ban TikTok
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TikTok could shut down unless Supreme Court blocks or delays U.S. ban
Court to hear arguments Friday on law forcing TikTok sale by Chinese parent company that takes effect in Jan. 19.
www.cbsnews.com
I'll be happy either way, as long as we get rid of this cancer of a SMSThey're not gonna wanna sell, so it's basically down to being banned or puling the plug themselves. I see no problem here other than it's limited to TiktokTikTok could shut down unless Supreme Court blocks or delays U.S. ban
Court to hear arguments Friday on law forcing TikTok sale by Chinese parent company that takes effect in Jan. 19.
Only reason they're banning it is cause they can't strongarm the owners into censoring the ongoing Palestinian genocide from ppl recording on the ground
I really don't like the precedent that the US can ban a thing purely and only because they don't like who owns it. Like, we aren't banning data collection agencies from selling to China
That and they just really don't like China owning the most popular social media site. The coverage of the Palestinian genocide is just how they got both the Dems and Reps to agree to a ban, but they've been wanting to get rid of this for years now.
Anyway, if this coincided with a ban on ALL social media (or at least facebook and twitter) I'd be busting out the saxophone, but as it stands it's just America clearing the way for Musk and Zuck.
There's legit good reason to ban TikTok. Several other countries have already done it.
These countries have already banned TikTok
TikTok is already banned in a handful of countries and from government-issued devices in a number of others, due to official worries that the app poses privacy and cybersecurity concerns.
www.pbs.org
Agreed, though would swap the china and genocide around in that is usually easier to fool a human into fearing the abstract concept of a country than supporting a clearly escalating genocide. It's the evangelicals and John Hagee with their grubby fingers over that nightmare
Can't argue with that. In fact, I used to hate twitter as well, but ever since community notes became a thing, the spread of misinformation seem to have quelled down a bit.
But tiktok? this platform seems to attract the worst challenges, trends, and "pranks" that are either dangerous, being fucking rude in public, illegal, or harassing people in public. There are also people who try to justify their toxic behaviors, cancel someone by accusing them of doing something inappropriate when they were actually minding their own business, or spreading misinformation, which is something I hate.
Granted, these problems are still seen in other SMS, but Tiktok is the true hotspot.
I wonder if they'll change their tune when they see its uses. Ticktock was one of the means to almost push a complete stranger to the top of politics in Slovenia. And given Elon is desperate to interfere against European democracies and get fascists installed into power he should be very interested in that.
Do you live in a Bond movie? Elon isn't gonna try to get fascists in power. He's not Elliot Carver.
Literally just shilled for the AFD today. And if you think he won't artificially boost that shilling with the algorithm for the site he owns you might be a bit naive. Musk doesn't even hide his love affair with the European far right. Why would you?
Heck why do you think him and Zuckerburg are so desperate to shoot down any defense against disinformation? Its because such measures make it harder to boost the far right through their platforms.
Musk backs Tommy Robinson, who even Piers Morgan and Nigel Farage thinks is detestable