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Just pick a different fucking video platform. There's something wrong about a thing when people call their senators and threaten suicide if they take it away
That's literally Addiction. Most social media use addiction for profit.
You really think TikTok has free speech. LMAO.
They will shadow ban you for anything the CCP doesn't like.
TikTok isn’t free speech. It’s just a scrapyard of trashy contents. People use TikTok seem to like swimming in the pile of garbage.
Honestly, I was one of those people. Eventually, I realized I wasn't happy because the algorithm found that I responded to a specific narrative and would not stop showing it to me no matter how hard I tried to remove it from my feed. I don't like the person I become when I think that way, and the algorithm does not care. I had to just uninstall TikTok to be free of that toxic mindset.
Btw the mindset is incel-flavored misogyny. TikTok nearly re-radicalized me in the worst possible way.
Even the people pushing this law acknowledge that the threat is purely theoretical, no one is advancing any serious argument that data has been or will be shared or leaked or anything of the sort. It's just xenophobia, if they wanted to protect American citizens' data they would do something about the way they allow tech companies to just take your data and turn around and sell it to whoever wants it.
Bonus points because US government officials can punt a great bargain basement blowout sale to former US officials by forcing the sale of a company using said xenophobia.
People are intolerant. Let's not tolerate them. Now we are intolerant:
It's not a ban of tiktok when they are being forced to sell to a usa company.
And in what way will free speech be hurt? Now I can make jokes about Xi Jinping looking like Winnie the pooh on tiktok once the USA owns it. If anything speech will be more free and this is a shitpost from a China shill.
Fuck the CcP and Fuck Xi jinping! - free enough for you?
The actual problem is that the language of the bill is looking to make it far easier for a president to ban any given potentially foreign influenced video platform. That's not fantastic and it's been masked under these compounding layers of absurdity.
Why are you so angry? I never meant or even said what you are implying i did. Quiet the contrary: read the wikipage again, its about when it is justified to act like the side you want to ban.
I calmly and deliberately don't like the ccp or xijinping.
We will be more like China
We won't be like China. We'll be more insulated and divorced from Chinese media, culture, and conversation.
That's the stated end goal. Bringing up sharp walls between nationalities in order to control the flow of information between people.
If we keep TikTok open, we risk exposing American young people to Chinese norms, ideals, and social standards. We might even be exposed directly to Chinese mass media (ie, propaganda).
This is a real security risk, as it raises a possibility that younger Americans won't accept American mass media at face value.
If you really wanted to ban China, stop buying everything they make. Oh, that's right, you can't. It's literally everywhere.
Oh, no, we totally can. We just need to buy local. What? It is "too expensive!!"? Yeah, well, tell me about being part of the problem...