The TikTok ban is a monumental failure of U.S. leadership. No gun laws, no healthcare, crumbling infrastructure, crumbling schools, no housing, skyrocketing rent, low wages, predatory capitalism, staggering corruption. But they can come together to shut down one of the few communities Americans have
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The misinformation on our own side is staggering. The vote among Ds on the ban, its own bill, was 155-50 in the House. Three D senators opposed it.
This is the problem with an echo chamber.
You are denying that China manipulates algorithms. Do you also deny that the TikTok ban was a toss up until Congress saw intelligence reports?
I’m sorry you will lose funny videos and that you now can’t find a news source that only reports what you already think.
But National Security.
I don't trust the Chinese govt! But I don't trust Zuck or Musk any more. This could've been narrowly handled. And applied uniformly to all.
https://bsky.app/profile/katharinehayhoe.com/post/3lfzgnjgqtc2f
Nothing will happen to them. It's not like our reps answer to us. Where do you think you are? South Korea?
Thats about it.
We don't know details because they're in intelligence reports, but the Chinese government can or does use it to collect data on users, manipulate algorithms and spread fake news.
I'm a liberal Democrat but that way lies a total loss of independent thought.
You can't just make up lies to contract lies. The truth, historically, wins every time.
We need a better message, not a lie.
Trump is a lying POS. He was all for banning TikTok. That doesn't mean Ds didn't support it.
And they should have. It's subject to Chinese data collection and spreads fake news.
Question it and you’re treated like an apostate. Trust me on that.
I am not accusing you of doing it purposely, you probably read it elsewhere here, that's why it's bad to spread false information inside this echo chamber. We become like them.
Sources:
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/04/trumps-partisan-spin-on-tiktok/
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1165579717/tiktok-congress-hearing-shou-zi-chew-project-texas
https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/us-government-banned-tiktok-federal-devices-whats-next?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD-E15n8Jk1sQe-LliYv2bmI57kyV
https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-timeline-ban-biden-india-d3219a32de913f8083612e71ecf1f428
I'm sorry, but the President signed it, it's his. That's how it works. If you vote for it, you supported it. Legislative deals happen that way all the time.