I can't believe this is the one thing this congress has actually managed to do. We just want healthcare
I want both.
Healthcare!?! Who needs healthcare when Congress is giving us our god given freedom of domestic surveillance capitalism, which is the freedomist freedom that ever freedomed, you filthy communist!
So anyway, I started violating civil liberties... PEW PEW
You'll take your overpriced medicine from your out of network pharmacy and you'll like it. At the fake markup price. And good luck getting that ultrasound, they're going to code the billing wrong so instead of it being $40 it's $1000. That's freedom talking.
I wonder how many of these lawmakers will be invested in the company that swoops in and saves the American public?
For real. You know Pelosi is already investing.
If she’s investing at the same time you’re getting the information, she missed the best time to buy. She might have hedged her bets and bought early
Fun fact: Congresspeople can legally inside trade, but the rest of us cannot.
Politicians should be banned from stock market. Total conflict of interest.
Eight Democrat Senators agree with you, and cosponsored a bill in September that died at introduction.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2773/all-actions-without-amendments
Healthcare? Nah, let's fight about it for decades and never give people anything meaningful. Education? Nah, let's make our people go neck deep into debt and still fight about it for decades. Ban TikTok? Hold my bribery, you got it. Gimme 24 hours and you got it, boss.
We can't solve real issues because then we couldn't keep the American populace overworked, sick, and unable to fight back.
Its all to get around passing a real privacy law with teeth.
lmao, they don't want a real privacy law, they want to have a monopoly in spying on Americans.
Just as a reminder, we have been 'fighting for 15' since 2012. But when it comes to leveraging foreign companies with bans to force them to sell to US oligarchs we can move at blazing speed through the least functional congrss in recent history. There are two very different Americas depending on how much money you have.
Too bad we can't ban Meta, Twitter, and Snapchat while we're at it.
won’t happen
Where do you think the FBI gets their domestic terrorist intel from 😂
Even though i dont think banning tiktok is a good idea purely because of the concept, those boards are funny. "Tiktok changed my life for the better"
They're also all printed, and with the same font. I'm assuming it's a stock photo, but if that's from a real protest I don't trust those protestors.who the hell gets a protest sign printed?
Its because the company literally paid shills to stump for them in person, call Congress, etc.
"The Chinese oligarchs are taking over!" - US oligarchs probably
US oligarchs most definitely
This comment section is astounding.
If you think it’s good that congress passed a ban of a social media platform tied to a bill funding two foreign wars you’re either a fed or delusional.
Seriously. The real solution is comprehensive privacy protection and consumer information export controls for all companies operating within the US.
This whole thing is just going to give an American company the capability to use Tik Tok to spy on people and control information, which is barely better.
And then they'll likely sell the data to China anyway. Data brokers exist and make a fuck ton of money on us.
If social media apps exist to slurp up as much user info as possible, and they do, then it makes sense to be concerned about the government that they're subject to.
I probably shouldnt be celebrating this but I am. I fucking despise Tiktok with a passion, I hate its users, its creators, I hate the short form content trend it started and its algorithm based content delivery systems that every other app copied but worse, I hate the sexualisation of minors and peddling that content to pedos, I hate the clout chasing in general, I hate tiktok trends and "challenged". and I hate the general brainrot it has caused.
What are you celebrating, exactly? TikTok isn't going away, it's just going to be sold to American investors.
Nooooo only I should collect data of the entire world!
They never got over Snowden.
I have mixed feelings. Like I’m glad we’re funding Ukraine, angry we’re finding Israel, and mixed about TikTok. I dislike the app, but that’s no reason to ban something. I think all social media has the issues associated with it except one: a foreign country controls the algorithm. Also this is standard policy for foreign companies in China and turnabout is fair play.
They may just pull out of the US completely
They'd be right to do so.
The way this got passed was criminally sleazy. And there's no reason for a foreign company to hand over its IP to some Wall Street thugs.
It seems like a lot of people think moves like this are about actual national security like congress claims,
So the next nine months will be TikTok pushing pro Trump propaganda 24/7, mobilising the youth against Biden, only to be forced to sell by Trump anyway because everyone who hops into bed with populists gets fucked regardless.
Weak, totalitarian strategy. If we’re worried about China taking over, becoming China is not the right way to fight that.
And pretending that forcing American ownership cuts out China’s influence is foolish.
Hindsight is so 20/20 in some comments.
Guys, stop focusing on the headline. Read the line underneath it. It's not being banned as in, pushed out of use. It's being severed from it's china-based parent company.
There is such a literacy issue in this country that it's sad.
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