United States | News & Politics

7212 readers

236 users here now

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

pangyuehung@lemmy.ml

yogthos@lemmy.ml

House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok (www.cnn.com)

submitted 8 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’ve never used TikTok and don’t care if it dies, but the whole stupid saga has hysterical Chinese spy balloon energy.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

TikTok has been the one platform that censors content far less than US owned ones. For example, it was basically the only place where people could post videos from riots in Europe or of what was happening in Gaza. Most of this stuff was quickly scrubbed from places like Reddit, Instagram, of Facebook. Once they get rid of TikTok, there's going to be a lot more control over what people in US get to see.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ah well, we can’t have that! Which is why military-industrial complex think tanks have their eyes on the fediverse.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Indeed, the only reason they haven't gone after the fediverse in full force yet is cause it's still too niche. If it ever blows up to the volume of TikTok, I guarantee they're gonna try to ban it as well.