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Tik Tok is pretty trash. Good shit,.
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Did this bill start in the Senate?
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I hope everyone supporting this understands the precedent this sets.

Another win for the nanny state
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luigi33 posted...
Tik Tok is pretty trash. Good shit,.
Most of the younger crowd say otherwise, and those are the people President Biden needs to sway to win.
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Thats a great bill. I would love to see how they are going to enforce this without looking completely inept at how the internet works.
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Is Tiktok being banned for political reasons more than security ones?
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ssb_yunglink2 posted...
I hope everyone supporting this understands the precedent this sets.

Another win for the nanny state

Police state is more like it. This stupid bill isn't being passed for the sake of some form of public safety, it's being passed for the sake of "national security"

Cheater87 posted...
Is Tiktok being banned for political reasons more than security ones?

It's both. The political ones are likely what got enough people on board to agree that it needs to be banned for security reasons.
Cheater87 posted...
Is Tiktok being banned for political reasons more than security ones?

Bingo. TikTok has too much influence over the people and that's something high political figures don't like. Shameful really. I know people who make a living out of their TikTok content.
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Never used the app, but all the Zoomer and Alpha kids are going to be crying.
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ToadallyAwesome posted...
Thats a great bill. I would love to see how they are going to enforce this without looking completely inept at how the internet works.
I mean they are completely inept at how the internet works. They've already proved this numerous times.
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So its not a ban, but a requirement that they sell the US coverage of the app to a US company (but that they will be banned if they refuse to do so within the time allotted)?

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Full_Pokedex posted...
I mean they are completely inept at how the internet works. They've already proved this numerous times.

We still have people assuming the Internet is a fad that will die off sooner or later.
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Trumpo posted...
Never used the app, but all the Zoomer and Alpha kids are going to be crying.
I mean wouldnt you be pissed if something you enjoyed was literally banned by the government for entirely political reasons?
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imo government-mandated censorship is bad
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Regardless of what you think about TikTok this is not a good precedent to set.
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ssb_yunglink2 posted...
I hope everyone supporting this understands the precedent this sets.

Another win for the nanny state
This does set a bad precedent, because it opens the door to censorship of any platforms the government doesn't agree with based on concerns of "nation security", but in this case, well... the platform is a genuine concern for national security. Tiktok is in the pocket of the CCP, no two ways about it. All platforms are of course guilty of harvesting and selling user data, but Tiktok takes that to the nth extreme, infiltrating every other app and message on every device in the hands of millions of Americans every single day. All of this information goes directly to China. They also deliberately censor harmful information about China on the platform, use it to spread propaganda, etc. etc. etc.

Moon has a couple pretty good videos about this on Youtube.
There's a time and place for everything... but not now.
GhostFaceLeaks posted...
We still have people assuming the Internet is a fad that will die off sooner or later.

Dang those people stuck in the Dark times
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LinkDaLunatic posted...
This does set a bad precedent, because it opens the door to censorship of any platforms the government doesn't agree with based on concerns of "nation security", but in this case, well... the platform is a genuine concern for national security. Tiktok is in the pocket of the CCP, no two ways about it. All platforms are of course guilty of harvesting and selling user data, but Tiktok takes that to the nth extreme, infiltrating every other app and message on every device in the hands of millions of Americans every single day. All of this information goes directly to China. They also deliberately censor harmful information about China on the platform, use it to spread propaganda, etc. etc. etc.

Moon has a couple pretty good videos about this on Youtube.
The solution in this bill is literally just keeping the app in its current form, but allowing the US to do the spying instead.

Do not be fooled at the intentions here.
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Trumpo posted...
Never used the app, but all the Zoomer and Alpha kids are going to be crying.

Then they should be motivated to vote
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Wow another win for government oppression and censorship with people cheering no less, people continue to prove more and more stupid by the day.
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Offworlder1 posted...
Wow another win for government oppression and censorship with people cheering no less, people continue to prove more and more stupid by the day.
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Is this really going to solve anything?

Like, best case scenario, TikTok is gone, but the only thing that changes is there's incentive for Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, etc... to push their shitty short video products even harder because there's now this huge hole in the market.

How much extra effort is it really going to be for China or Russia or wherever to get all this data from Google or Meta, given that same data is literally what they sell ?
well, it is basically Chinese governmental spyware, so i don't really see the issue
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ssb_yunglink2 posted...
The solution in this bill is literally just keeping the app in its current form, but allowing the US to do the spying instead.

Do not be fooled at the intentions here.
They don't want outsiders to be able to influence. They want to be the only ones. Also, doesn't help if soldiers use it to give away sensitive information. That's just regular American standards.
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hockeybabe89 posted...
But Chiner!!
Who can't use the data collected on US citizens for anything HOWEVER the US government CAN use the data against their own people. I wonder if the same people cheering will be cheering when they are herded into a re education camp which is what this censorship ultimately leads too,
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ssb_yunglink2 posted...
I hope everyone supporting this understands the precedent this sets.

Another win for the nanny state

hopefully people turning 18 get so mad about this bs they vote all these people out of office
Proto_Spark posted...
Is this really going to solve anything?

Like, best case scenario, TikTok is gone, but the only thing that changes is there's incentive for Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, etc... to push their shitty short video products even harder because there's now this huge hole in the market.

How much extra effort is it really going to be for China or Russia or wherever to get all this data from Google or Meta, given that same data is literally what they sell ?

Truth. Kids will find something else ugh
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Kinda dumb tbh.
this is bad and if you support this you should feel bad
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luigi33 posted...
Tik Tok is pretty trash. Good shit,.
Okay, but...this is an awful way to go about things. Like, really awful. I don't think this will end up the way they think it will.

Full_Pokedex posted...
Most of the younger crowd say otherwise, and those are the people President Biden needs to sway to win.
...No. Just...no.

Full_Pokedex posted...
I mean they are completely inept at how the internet works. They've already proved this numerous times.
You're completely inept on how everything works, and that's been proven time and time again. That doesn't stop you from coming back here.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...
The solution in this bill is literally just keeping the app in its current form, but allowing the US to do the spying instead.

Do not be fooled at the intentions here.
Actually, no. The app, with ByteDance divesting from it, will not be as it currently is. First of all, the way it harvests data and sends it back to China for their government to build their database is going away. Regardless of what one thinks about the data collection that social media apps grab, what China does with this info and what others do with it are not the same. Second, the app will be "worse" for the users when it comes to serving up videos. Because ByteDance is not going to give up their proprietary algorithms. So what the US company ends up getting will not be nearly as effective as it is now.

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Naturally, you find a way to blame the Democrats for this. You are sadly predictable in your reactions to things.
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Cheater87 posted...
Is Tiktok being banned for political reasons more than security ones?
No. I'd like that to be the case but you don't see this happening to any other social media company and they all deserve it to a degree.

Anyway I think the ban of TikTok is a step in the right direction, with tiktok specifically being owned by an enemy of the US.
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P4wn4g3 posted...
o. I'd like that to be the case but you don't see this happening to any other social media company and they all deserve it to a degree.

Anyway I think the ban of TikTok is a step in the right direction, with tiktok specifically being owned by an enemy of the US.

But a racist South African who is propping up the Republican party is okay to run Twitter ?
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Cemith posted...
Regardless of what you think about TikTok this is not a good precedent to set.

Do, or do not. There is no Trumble.
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Finally a glimmer of hope for our children to go outside again!
It will be replaced by another app.
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I never liked tik tok very much because you basically need an account to use it (you can still view videos without one, but they make it a huge pain in the ass). Youtube Shorts is way better. And of course RIP Vine
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cjsdowg posted...
But a racist South African who is propping up the Republican party is okay to run Twitter ?
What sort of a non-sequiter is this? How exactly is Elon Musk a puppet of an enemy of the US? Maybe I don't want the answer. Anyway I'm all for the eradication of Twitter too, but not via this same process.

Trumble posted...
Regardless of what you think about TikTok this is not a good precedent to set.
The precedent was set with the Russia election tampering. The US is considerably behind on cyber social engineering countermeasures.
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Cheater87 posted...
Is Tiktok being banned for political reasons more than security ones?

Yes
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still cant believe people are actually okay with this, or even encouraging it.

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I'm more than positive the courts will strike this down.
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