TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell
TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell
President Biden signed a bill that states if TikTok doesn't cut ties with its China-based parent company ByteDance over the next nine months to a year, it will be banned in the U.S.
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TikTok is the primary source of brain-rot in 2024, please, somebody, change my mind.
I learned how to garden, grow food, ferment food, and some plant identification. I have a working knowledge of sewing. I've watched volcanoes erupt. I saw deep space imagery from JWST and followed along the Voyager 1 communications issues. I get a stream of physicists and physicians sharing about the latest in their field.
It helped me realize many limiting beliefs I've had about myself and I love myself more than I ever have.
I could have done those things elsewhere, too. But just like Pandora / Spotify are a tool to discover things you like that you didn't know before, so is algorithmic video delivery.
Is everything on any social media good? I'm sure there are corners of Tiktok that are as deplorable as anywhere else.
That's great to hear, genuinely the first positive impact I've heard of TikTok having.
I will however state the obvious, you could find most, if not all the same information with a search engine.
Ok. Have you not heard of X, MAGA, or Truth Social?
Thankfully, I'm not forced to interact with any of those, it's not a problem here. Here in Australia, TikTok is everywhere, and I feel at times as if I'm the only one here that hasn't touched it, that doesn't stop my friends from ignoring the fact I've asked them countless times not to send tiktoks to me.
One of said friends is a nurse, one of the smartest people I know. She told me how to do CPR based on what she'd seen in a TikTok, as someone that's done the CPR training, and actually performed it, I was really upset that her knowledge had been overwritten in a very short time of her TikTok addiction. I'm finding such cases are becoming more and more common kately and it's terrifying.