Current Events > AOC voted NO on the tiktok ban. FIGHT with her and support FREEDOM

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lmao you guys are mad at an obvious jape.

Okay, let's also be clear that politics affect people's livelihood and wellbeing and isn't some little kids toy to piss around with.

Dunno why people think this is something to play with. It's 2024. Get a real hobby.

If it gets sold to an american company than the american legal system can take them to court over it. How would one legally force TikTok to stop using a keylogger as they are currently structured (without using a ban)?

Also, the bill isn't even a blanket tiktok ban. It gives the president the power to ban apps that pose a national security risk. Everyone keeps calling it a TikTok ban because it's easier to explain, but the problem is then you have all these people going "but why are they singling out TikTok?" when the bill isn't doing that at all.

EDIT: then there's also this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68556540

They're literally using data harvested to hunt down sources for news stories. In a country where the app itself is banned. AND in strict violation of the steps they took to assure the US this wasn't happening in the first place. People need to stop pretending like TikTok and Facebook are identical things.

Oh cry more it's an anonymous video game forum. Even richer when you're one of the thorniest users here lol. Can dish but can't take.

Cry about it and join in I guess, great, thanks

What the TikTok ban has failed to demonstrate is how TikTok is doing this demonstratively worse than Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.

^ Let's be VERY fuckin clear here, calling someone a fascist isn't an "insult". It's far more heinous than that

Nah. Fuck tiktok

Nah. Fuck AOC

AOC voted NO on the tiktok ban

Fuck TikTok. I was surprised to see she voted NO but it sounds like it's more about the bill and not about the idea of force selling TikTok to America.

Like, China bans all our shit. Why the fuck should we just let a hostile country socially engineer us?

Actually I don't care about Tiktok whats more concerning is if it does get banned this could open the door for bans of anything on the Internet.

Crazy how you neolibs don't realize how conservative you sound.

Yes the only way to have freedom is to support a garbage social media platform

Who are you voting for in November?

Oh cry more it's an anonymous video game forum. Even richer when you're one of the thorniest users here lol. Can dish but can't take.

Whose alt?

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that our government should ban it.

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that our government should ban it.

Would you support a social media platform run by the Taliban or the FSB or North Korea if it was fun to use?

why do you guys think tiktok's algorithms are pushing so much stuff about palestine to people's feeds, hmmmmmm

zoomers are posting about gaza way more than they ever posted about, say.... republicans banning abortion for millions of people

artsakh got wiped off the map and ethnically cleansed in the last few months and nobody even knows about that. why is that do you think

why do you think the algorithms care so disproportionately much about gaza

We could ask you the same thing, but we already know the answer.

remember last year when sinophobia was at a high and everyone wanted to ban the tikatok? i mean, trump wants to keep it, so aren't all the lefty heroes anti-tikatok? how does this work exactly. AOC is aligned with trump -- brain pretzel?

pepperidge farm remembers

i feel like the xenophobia has transitioned away from the chinese and into indians now. at least in canada it has. And, how. iykyk.

tiktok is fucking cancer and it should be banned

Would you support a social media platform run by the Taliban or the FSB or North Korea if it was fun to use?

Tell me who Im voting for in November.

Hes saying china controls the algorithms to try to influence the election.

In the same vein that others suggested that china uses it to destabilize their enemies and therefore will never share the tech.

The real problems are the key loggers and other such potential security breaches, because people are fucking idiots.

Of those 150 million how many of those do you think are government employees or work in civil infrastructure like power or gas mains?

Think they never log in on a work machine, or unsafely connect private devices to their networks?

It is a massive potential security issue.

Im against the ban personally, but not being honest about the situation helps nothing.

TikTok has been banned on government and other sensitive data devices for a year now. That's completely valid to me. Other developed countries have done the same. No other country has done a population wide ban though and it feels weird that the country that prides itself on its freedom is banning something before other nanny state developed countries that havent.

Americas status as land of the free is, and always has been bullshit. Look at how many people who cry were free! turn out to be extremely authoritarian about parenting, schooling, capitalist exploitation and the legal system destroying peoples lives.

Hell its founders were slave owners. That set the tone right there.

Yeah, red state/conservative things. Which is what makes the alleged liberals cheering it on stand out.