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Tiktok is a goddamn plague and I don’t take anyone seriously who uses the app.
Nothing of value would be lost.
But it would also be replaces by something else equily as shitty. The federal government doesn’t move fast enough to block stuff like this by name.
I has to be something broad, and enforceable. Tic tok has already been doing its thing for like 5 years.
Really resembles a bill of attainder, to me.
We’d ALL be much better off, and a similar outcome could be achieved, by putting to law strict data security and privacy rules. Plus it wouldn’t inevitably be challenged on very reasonable 1A grounds. But that isn’t as politically possible because so many – especially conservatives – don’t believe in the liberty of privacy.
The entire point is to open up the market for an American company.
Anyone who thinks otherwise isn’t paying attention to the world around them.
The data privacy issues will still exist. The ‘engagement’ issue will still exist. But it’s okay when Americans screw over Americans.
That’s a big part of it too, but i think an even bigger part is the use of TikTok in counter culture. It is definitively the largest gathering of counter culture on the web. They fear losing control of the narrative. The intelligence agencies already control Meta and google. They have members on TikTok’s board. Social media is an avenue for consent manufacturing for our government, and any deviation from their manufactured line is unacceptable.
And what’s your proposed solution?
ban social media entirely.
YES
honestly I’m ready to ban the internet. This whole thing was a huge mistake. We are not evolutionarily equipped to handle this much connection.
To what? There isn’t an issue. People willingly give up their information, and that’s okay with me.
They should get to make that decision.
I am not surprised that this is happening. What I am surprised is how many people have no idea how fucked up this law is or its implications, and are therefore defending it because “lawl le crinj china app xdxdxdxdddd”
Bro. This law literally bans the usage of VPNs to access foreign sites and services. Even China won’t fuck with that, and they invented the concept of having a separate internet that abides by their censorship. VPNs are legal and common there. Also, like, this thing we are using? The Fediverse? Where half the servers are not in the US of A? Say goodbye to IT as well.
Y’all are cheering for the building of “The Great Firewall, but painted Red White and Blue” but don’t even realise it because you think an app where some kids do dumb dances is literally the devil.
Anyway, enjoy your self-made dystopia, I’ll be here in the third world laughing at your faces.
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I would like to note that my shitehole of a third world home country has public healthcare.
It’s not excellent, far from it, it’s in fact very flawed: It’s underfunded, depending on the area you’ll be “queuing up” for your consultation for so long that you’ll either recover on your own or drop dead, and sometimes doctors have to push ghetto treatments because the real thing is too expensive, so if you have the option, you’d rather not.
… But it exists, it genuinely saves lives, and also – In existing it also drives down the price of private healthcare, meaning that middle-class folks (like me!) can afford it without being sent over the poverty line.
Crazy how that works. We’ve been Murica’s bitch for two centuries now, but life here still seems
mileskilometers better than over there.
I would be all okay with this move if the US is imposing equal data protection and privacy rules to all American companies as well.
Do we have a Fediverse alternative ready to step in if they do?
Instagram Reels is the exact same model as tiktok, but that’s allowed to stay, because of murrica and freedom or something.
The only real concern with tiktok is the worry about data collection. But if they cared about that, then they’d pass laws on it. It’s only because it’s not a US company profiting from the data collection of their property. Sorry, I mean free citizens.
Same problem as with YouTube alternatives, hosting video files is expensive.
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even if we did, I don’t think people would be interested in using a replacement without a recommendation algorithm that’s powered by tracking every millisecond you spend in an app in order to tailor the content to your interests.
also, storing video is p r i c e y.
Nothing of value is lost if TikTok goes away.
What would really happen is it’ll be sold to an American company.
Tbh as an asian, the easiest way for me to access american content is Tiktok. So i will get sad if it gets banned.
All that would happen is an American company would buy it. That is the part that makes me uncomfortable. If it’s a threat, it shouldn’t kept.
Good. It’s about time.
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One part of me feels this is overreach, but social media is doing as much harm as it is good. We need to rethink the internet.
Social media hasn’t done any good in the last 20 years. It’s been detrimental to society for a very long time.
Pooh’s gonna be pissed.
His popularity will absolutely tank with the younger generation if he does
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I don’t think he cares about his popularity with people under 18
People under 18 are by no means the only demographic that’s addicted to tiktok.
This is such a an idiotic take.
People love saying this so they can call something dumb without opening their views to criticism.
Lazy idiotic complaint.
I think anything that comes even close to disenfranchising a segment of voter that even hypothetically should lean more towards Biden than Trump in this election cycle is idiotic.
I don’t care about the morality of any of it. Well deal with that on the backend of whatever preventing Trump from taking office looks like. What’s 9 more months of Chinese spyware and stupid dances going to hurt? Nothing. If it even costs Biden 1/4th if a percent in November, don’t fucking do it. Whatever it takes to win and I mean whatever.
Bid n pushing for shit like this when all of our futures on the line is incredibly fucking stupid. People supporting this action are also idiots.
There i elaborated if you need it chewed up and spit in your mouth baby birds.
Couldn’t agree more. I want tik tok banned. I want much stricter and broad as fuck data privacy laws. But doing this now is a terrible idea. Like holy shit wait until next year. It feels like a trap is being set.
It feels like a trap is being set.
Except that the trap is Biden’s political instincts. Biden didn’t win 2020, the BLM movement which had just spent 4 years on the streets resisting fascism, which was engaged and activated, they stopped Trump in 2020. Mass voter activation and outreach; an engaged and activated political population with the singular goal of stopping Trump: they won 2020. Biden got carried along for the ride. Problem we face now is that a Boomer (is he even a boomer?) who got handed second base by another batter thinks he hit a double. His instincts are shit. His politics are shit. He’s a stand-in we all voted for in lieu of voting for something much worse, and that’s precisely the problem. He shouldn’t be making political or campaign decisions, because it wasn’t his politics that got him into office. This is the fundamental problem at the core of blue-no-matter-who as a voting strategy.
Every move Biden’s had to make on his own volition and world view has been a terrible one. He’s a fucking idiot and we’re told were stuck with him? Except that I don’t actually believe we’re stuck with Biden. Its 2020 all over again. Biden’s not going to get elected on his own volition. Its not him being elected (again), its “Not Trump”. We could have gotten an old boot left out in the rain elected in 2020, the anti-Trump sentiment was so strong. Its the same game this year. If any blue will do, we should try a different blue that isn’t working to actively disenfranchise their base. Any generic blue state governor. West coast has plenty, just grab one. But Biden trying to turn the Democratic party to the right is so fucking stupid, its about the only strategy that could be employed that will lose the election for the Democrats. He’s setting us up for disaster and people here are cheering it on.
Does he have any popularity with the younger generation? The kids I know are smart enough to realize their options are bad and worse.
Yep, so much ground to lose there.
Crap president.
it’s not a ban.
Such freedoms 🇱🇷
Liberian flag lol
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