The last congress tried to ban TikTok, someone here posted a giant effortpost that explained the red scare propaganda reasoning, complete with a bunch of Chinese history and a focus on Deng. And then the instructions to install the app without using the App Store were at the bottom. Real leftist meme territory.
It's the same as with the Great Firewall, just much more weakly enforced. Block off enough people to get them to move to competitors that don't have ties to the Chinese government.
I’ve never used TikTok and don’t care if it dies, but the whole stupid saga has hysterical Chinese spy balloon energy.
TikTok has been the one platform that censors content far less than US owned ones. For example, it was basically the only place where people could post videos from riots in Europe or of what was happening in Gaza. Most of this stuff was quickly scrubbed from places like Reddit, Instagram, of Facebook. Once they get rid of TikTok, there's going to be a lot more control over what people in US get to see.
Ah well, we can’t have that! Which is why military-industrial complex think tanks have their eyes on the fediverse.
Indeed, the only reason they haven't gone after the fediverse in full force yet is cause it's still too niche. If it ever blows up to the volume of TikTok, I guarantee they're gonna try to ban it as well.
If I need to use a fucking VPN to access to Tiktok, I goddamn will. Fucking bullshit.
I don't use TikTok, but if they ban it I sure as fuck will start.
Oh well. Maybe kids should get interested in STEM and shit instead of getting addicted to these pranksters and influencers with nothing of value and nothing intelligent going on in their heads..
These headlines continue to be misleading.
The objective is not (explicitly) to "ban TikTok" but to remove
China's"a "foreign adversary"'s control over the most widely used / misused social media app. Congress wants ByteDance to sell the service. Even the most ardent TikTok users should be in support of this bill.Meanwhile, it's being reported that the app is prompting users to call their representatives. Some offices have reported that their phones are literally ringing off the hook in some districts preventing people with more legitimate concerns to be left unheard.
I'd like to know if the same people calling their representatives about banning TikTok are also calling them about banning books.
ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
TikTok Ltd owns four entities that are based respectively in the United States, Australia (which also runs the New Zealand business), United Kingdom (also owns subsidiaries in the European Union), and Singapore (owns operations in Southeast Asia and India).
