Of course they target TikTok, but won't give after X which actually affected this past election in favor of the Putin agenda to undermine the security of our nation.
The point is, Musk who is in bed with right-wing legislatures pushing hard for this is not being held accountable like TikTok. Same with Facebook which has done the exact same.
Banning one platform owned by a foreign company isn't going to even put a bandaid on the problem with social media, and I'm certain the legislators know that.
I keep hearing or seeing people say that, but I managed to stay away from the extremist side of TikTok when I spent my time on it, unlike the other two where it seems no matter what I did right-wing garbage was still constantly being pushed in my face along with many others.
Lol. You know that's clever way to put it. Owned and controlled. When the reality is all social media companies are operating under the notion that our government could shut them down pretty much is the same thing. All the companies are afforded the opportunity to brain rot us under your permission.
It's hard for me to pick a side in this, because Tiktok is full of vapid influencers and an ever increasing population of disinformation spreaders, but so is every other mainstream social media site, and yet it's ONLY Tiktok that the government is going after 🤔
I think instead of banning an entire social media platform, the government should just enforce regulation against unimpeded spread of disinformation (just like they used to do with journalistic publications).
But of course that eats into profits from payoffs from tech moguls, so the government would never pass anything that negatively affects their Silicon Valley owners.
Is...That a real dance? It looks like a woman trying to signal that she's being held hostage by her evil boyfriend while he sits across the room glaring at her through his eyebrows.
It's all about the freemarket until the government doesn't want you on it. Tbh I don't think "but China can take your info" is a good argument. There is nothing they can take that isn't already public. A lot of Americans' livlihoods are on TikTok. They're going to ruin ppls' lives
So many hollow-minded people under some spell that TikTok is some kind of pipeline to hidden truths, it is the opposite as is all social media. They are mass manipulation systems.
Well the choice is sell, in which case they can make money off of it, or they just lose access to the U.S. market (a large part of revenue), which they may do because they don't want to share their algorithm. The U.S. gov't doesn't care which they choose at all.
I think you overestimate how many people will actually do that when the app is no longer in the app store. Of course there'll be people who do it, but the majority of content creators aren't going to want to deal with the legal implications of accessing the app and in turn accepting illegal funds.
Not to mention if they ban the app because of national security concerns, banks and financial institutions may not be allowed to facilitate financial transactions between the app, any affiliated entity, and U.S. residents which de-incentivizes content creators.
It's not asking a business to do it's bidding. It banned the business and gave it a date to be shut down or sold, which is what a country should do to foreign businesses that are against its interests.
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I’d rather just do same over here but not yet.
As Nancy Pelosi said, everybody wants to buy stock in TikTok and I say not everybody can afford to do that.
unless you have a legit source that says otherwise . . . 🤷♂️
And don't kid yourself. The algorithms at work on Tick Tok weren't designed to get Kamala Harris elected either.
I wholeheartedly agree that Twitter and Facebook should be held accountable for their disinformation.
You want out? Then delete your acct on them.
People are sleeping on Tik Tok because cute 15 second dance videos seem benign.
Tik Tok is just as much a threat to democracy as Facebook and Twitter.
How is their politics worse than Musk's or Zuckerberg's?
Recall that Facebook was instrumental in getting Trump elected in 2016.
This is really sad news.
https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-court-cancels-presidential-election-runoff-tiktok-russian-influence-calin-georgescu/
Yet again, this country is a fucking joke!
Problem solved.