US lawmakers introduce bill to ban TikTok

[Phoenixmgs]

35,000+ people have died, you absolute ghoul.

I said it's not an issue the vast majority of the public really cares about, which is true.

 

[Chimpzy]

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

They'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 Tiktok

 

[FakeSympathy]

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

They'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 Tiktok

I'll be happy either way, as long as we get rid of this cancer of a SMS

 

[Chimpzy]

I'll be happy either way, as long as we get rid of this cancer of a SMS

All social media are cancer

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

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

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

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

 

[Casual Shinji]

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

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.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

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

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

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

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.

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