They aren't protecting you. They are protecting themselves from what you may give their enemies. Don't think just because the federal government is doing something "for the people" that nominally it's not about the government itself. National security is literally the government protecting itself by protecting its citizens.

I’m on board with the sentiment but are we really defending TikTok? I haven’t kept up on the issue but personally I wouldn’t cry if TikTok went away.

*40 year inflation brought on because the government wanted 14 years of free money for Corporations.

Monetary policy and Corporate price gouging are the drivers for inflation. Everything else is noise.

Ok but fuck tik Tok. Ban that shit. This comment is basically saying that banning tik Tok takes the same effort as giving your people healthcare.

Ok because I see a lot of stupid shit in here, you don't get to talk about banning tiktok if you don't talk about banning Instagram, Reddit, X and YouTube, who use the same formula, with equal fervour.

Now please talk about healthcare, climate crisis, the Palestinian ethnic cleansing by that cancerous, land grabbing, terrorist Israeli state and the shrinking buying power of the people all around the world.

Then you should have voted blue, idiot. This situation exists because of apathy and antigovernment sentiment.

Got news for you, their not protecting us from Tik Tok either.

Calling Republicans government...smh

How can Steve ban tiktok if Doug won't let him mitigate homelessness? Why is Bob talking about housing when Alex is gung-ho on genocide?

Sorry, I meant to ask: how can the government ban tiktok when the government won't do anything about homelessness? How can the government be proud of mitigating homelessness when the government supports genocide?

Citizens United must be a curse from a Greek god. A funny little jab to highlight our tendency to oversimplify.

Im down with the idea of social media being a threat to citizens for so long as the algorithms optimize for anger.

Mostly agreed, but is anyone really getting minimum wage? Walmart pays double that to start in my little town.

I think the funniest thing that happens if Trump wins is everyone is all the journalists being forced to make truth social accounts. Then they can ask the worlds oldest president to clarify his new ban on cat ladies and trans people.