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Won't this just backfire on then horribly? How do they honestly expect young voters to react when you ban their treats?
Stupid beyond measure
What are they going to do? Vote for a party that didn't approve of this aka a third party that will never win? Protest a bit then go home when it doesn't work?
Or more than likely go use some brand new or existing suddenly mysteriously popular thanks to a CIA push American/western backed platform that's similar but not the same?
Compare to the consequences of not crushing Chinese social media which is America sliding down away from unchallenged hegemony of the global cultural discourse, unchallenged hegemony of the towering heights of tech, communication, etc.
It isn't about Americans being spied on. Tiktok is controlled by the CIA and NSA and their American offices are full of "former" intelligence officers. It's about the fact that because it isn't American they can't use it in influence ops globally, they can't control global discourse with it. Just like Huawei, it was never about Chinese backdoors, it was about lack of 5 eyes western back doors in the equipment going to others that threatens the "national security" of a hacking empire of spies. The problem was always someone in Africa or Russia or India or South America, etc who couldn't be spied on, influenced, moderated by American power via American companies, back-doors, back-room agreements with the State Dept and CIA for influence OPs, helping color revolutions, etc.
When vine shut down, it was basically a fast-content desert for several years. Music.ly wasn’t that great, but it was the only real alternative since most of the other alternatives sucked or didn’t exist, then it got acquired by Byte Dance. American companies learned from that mistake and now they’ve been working on their own shitty TikTok clones
I can’t imagine many people will switch over unless the features are good and creators get to tell their fans to switch before it’s too late