Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok if it's not sold by its Chinese parent company
Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok if it's not sold by its Chinese parent company
The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company.
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170 million users in the United States.
Tankies: But it's just a lil Chinese app, why the US single out TiKTok‽
That's why. That's an incredible amount of influence right there.
While I could not give less of a shit about TikTok except as a possible personal source of revenue for people who want to hire me to make videos for them, I'm a hell of a lot more worried about the influence of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter now that you're allowed to do things like call queer people mentally ill pedophiles and immigrants are dirty criminals.
And this is why. Facebook is allowing exactly the same thing that they allowed to foment genocide in Myanmar: https://www.404media.co/meta-is-laying-the-narrative-groundwork-for-trumps-mass-deportations-2/
US just trying to stop China from getting a culture victory in this game of Civ.