I fail to see why this matters. Whichever way this ends there's still several years until the next election and this will not be any sort of issue, major or minor. If it doesn't get banned, people will move on to the next news cycle. If it does get banned, people will get a new app and then move on.
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Seriously nobody is going to give a single fuck once a replacement app comes out. Especially not the types of people that have had their attention spans destroyed by TikTok.
Democrats are so bad at managing their reputation that it makes it way easier for the republicans to demonize them.
Not particularly compelling.
I assure you I'm not the only one you're making cringe at 0720 on a Sunday.
I have an irregular work schedule.
And having precedent to crack down legally against big tech and social media platforms might be a good thing given elon and Zuckerberg are going full chud.
Again, I do not think this will be politically significant within a couple of news cycles.
Enjoy oblivion, I guess 🤷♂️
1. Stupid
2. Arrogant
3. As popular as face cancer.
the back and forth with tiktok might have a big effect, but if it does, it won't be for the same reasons
That's completely beside the general feelings of users who will head somewhere else.
You're stuck in thinking it's just a bunch of kids who need a new toy and I get that buy it's really myopic.
See this.
https://www.threads.net/@wowzitzmarc/post/DE_Uevesvpd?xmt=AQGzwCfq7kEiSEkTFOY5yPrBIVmgkzxE_9XtnCUNr8Uh7g
/mute
They banned it because they don't want people saying "Free Palestine" unless it's on a platform like Twitter where it gets drowned out by psychopathic genocidal bots.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt1-8-1/ALDE_00013139/
https://bsky.app/profile/mike10010100.bsky.social/post/3lg6xzcbops2x
It bent the knee just like everybody else.
"Thirty-nine percent of small businesses say that access to TikTok is critical to their businesses' existence"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-ban-would-hurt-creators-income/
How'd that work out for you?
If you're an 'influencer' you should be doing that anyway because this ecosystem is extremely unstable.
Why do you think The Youth won't do the same exact thing that they've done a dozen other times and simply migrate platforms?
for some people TikTok has been the main platform for their entire adolescence and yeah, that’s gonna hit different.
if you can’t see how that’s going to be a problem in the future, well…