House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid bill
House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid bill
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I see no issue with banning tik tok.
I don't like TikTok, but I do take issue with the government deciding what is and isn't available to me.
They are not banning the content type that tiktok provides, they are banning the foreign authoritarian government control of American user information. If Bytedance Sells tiktok to a business in a non authoritarian state then they no longer care.
Except they would be ignoring all the other shitty social networks but it's a start.
It's not a start tho, it's killing competition of Facebook and Google. It's consolidating power if anything. I believe this bill has nothing to do with security issues and everything to do with campaign contributions to make sure America never has to compete with another country in this space.
Oh I know their motivation is greed.
eh, It would look like more of a shakedown if it was just the US doing it, but tiktok is getting banned all over the place, particularly for government devices.
what did tiktok do to deserve being banned, and why is it okay for other companies to do that?
Feeding data to the CCP, helping them identify people who can be easily swayed into espionage. Say someone gets into a position of power. "Hey, remember when you were 12 and said this on tik Tok? Now we need you to be out bitch or we're leaking this."
Look at the things that have gone viral on Tik Tok, it's like their algorithm prioritizes things that are toxic to make American youth shittier. Kia boys comes to mind.
There is also the fact that China bans all American social media out of fear that we'd use it to manipulate their people. If they aren't allowing our businesses to compete fairly, why should we allow theirs? Also, they probably are projecting that fear because they are doing exactly that with TikTok.
The app has more permissions than most apps and is highly invasive. They sent a push notification to all their users based on Geo location saying who their rep was and giving their phone number saying to call them to stop this bill. That alone seems like a major abuse of power. They are using the data they have to try to sway the American politicians already.
you've failed to answer my second question, which I believe was the important one: why should this behavior be perfectly legal for everyone other than tiktok?
Yeah it's a good question, and I think the answer should be: it shouldn't. Instead of cracking down on one platform or another, they should be cracking down on the bad behaviors built into those platforms.
But alas, that would require us to elect politicians that understand an ounce of nuance
I agree with you, but I'm assuming malice because I don't think that stupidity adequately explains their behavior. I think that, to them, the problem isn't propaganda and espionage, it's Chinese propaganda and Chinese espionage where American propaganda and American espionage should be. That's why they're not making what tiktok does illegal, and that's why they're trying to force a sale rather than actually banning it.
Not a single thing you said has convinced me. And I am going to get on Tik Tok out of spite when this passes into law.
Sounds like a lose-lose scenario
Not really. It might have something I enjoy on it.
TikTok is very heavily influenced by the CCP and could be used to collect data from Americans (probably they already are). Not wanting your biggest geopolitical rival to harvest data from your citizens is pretty understandable.
Chinese government is a lot less a threat to me compared to the US. We are at most two elections cycles away from a Christian Nationalism state. China is over there, not my problem. I can avoid them if I want.
Except for the part where they couldn't get support for it twice so they shoved it in here to get their way? But that's ok because you don't like the silly dancing app that you know basically nothing about right? Other than "China bad", of course.
I don't give a shit about the China bit, I just think it's dumb and full of misinformation so I really don't care if it's banned. I have no reason to hide my thoughts on this. It's stupid, I think it's cringey as fuck, and I'll be happy to see it go. I know nothing about it because it doesn't remotely interest me in the slightest. I'm sorry you're upset people don't like your stupid little dancing app but lashing out like this changes jack shit. You're right. We don't like it. Nobody here was hiding that.
What misinformation is it full of? You surely must know if you're confidently making this claim.
Honestly? You have clearly never used it. The fact that you're just parroting what you've heard from others brainlessly is what's truly cringy here. Absolutely low IQ behavior. Not worth my time.
Ok, its cool that you believe that. Have a nice day!
Of course you didn't answer the question. I knew you wouldn't.
Cool bro, want a gold star? A cookie maybe?
Are you actually an adult?
Brother, I'm tired of this. I think it's cool that you disagree with me. Not too worried about it. There has got to be better things for you to do than constantly bugging me like this. It's ok for you to think of me however you will. Have a nice day!
i hate TikTok but also Instagram and YouTube shorts should be in the same list