House lawmakers voted to advance a bill that would ban TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform’s parent, ByteDance, divests the company.
The measure that sailed unanimously through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is quickly spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance.
US officials have cited the widespread commercial availability of US citizens’ data as another source of national security risk. The US government and other domestic law enforcement agencies are also known to have purchased US citizens’ data from commercial data brokers.
They know and we know that this is going nowhere. It’s got a very thin chance of being brought to a vote, let alone passing the whole House, and an even thinner chance of passing the Senate. There’s no way on this planet that Biden signs it. TikTok is just too powerful a campaigning platform.
our minimum wage is $7.25, no universal health care, the cops are militarized and keeping citizens in their proper places, food/ housing costs are more than our pay, transportation costs have skyrocketed, the postal service needs attention, we have fifty states not working together
but we showed that China TikTok what for BY GOD! they ain’t gonna spy on us
Those are the issues they dont want us collectively talking about, sharing our lived experiences and how they dont line up with the bullshit our government is gaslighting us with
You’re just spouting whataboutism. It’s not an argument, it’s a deflection tactic.
I have no love for Instagram or Facebook. IMO they should both be banned and have all data erased. The planet would be better off without them.
But that’s not the topic of conversation.
The US isn’t an adversarial country to itself. The CCP is an adversarial country to the US, and most of the world.
which has a more violent history
Ah yes, so the CCP is A-OK because you claim they have a “less violent history”. Makes perfect sense.
Tell me, how many people died during the Long March and the “Great” Leap Forward?
In any case, the bill is not about banning TikTok. The bill is about selling ownership of TikTok to a US owned firm to take away control from the CCP. And then only if a sale cannot be arranged, to ban it as a last resort.
the real enemy of the world is the US by a long shot. what the US does warrants invasions and wars on 3rd world countries by the US, the same isnt true for china.
no country has such a dark and murderous history. my country is on that list and we are suffering from the consequences still, decades later.
and yes, having people die of starvation in one of the poorest countries in the planet is sadly expected. no system of government can fix a country that huge overnight.
banning shit like tiktok like you have a huge moral highground is hypocritical at best when US apps are doing it all around the planet.
e: how could i forget the genocide you are sponsoring
The cyber security professional inside of me wants to agree with you. The Liberal in me doesn’t want to give the government the authority to ban speech and what citizens are allowed to watch.
So you’re going to shut down YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc as well right? Considering they all do the same thing and FB even interfered in an election?
Congress is after TikTok because it’s impacting corporate profits like the boycotts of Starbucks and McD has done. A place where we can collectively communicate with each other outside of the approved echo chambers. They can’t control how we act and think without being able to control the algorithm
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They know and we know that this is going nowhere. It’s got a very thin chance of being brought to a vote, let alone passing the whole House, and an even thinner chance of passing the Senate. There’s no way on this planet that Biden signs it. TikTok is just too powerful a campaigning platform.
our minimum wage is $7.25, no universal health care, the cops are militarized and keeping citizens in their proper places, food/ housing costs are more than our pay, transportation costs have skyrocketed, the postal service needs attention, we have fifty states not working together
but we showed that China TikTok what for BY GOD! they ain’t gonna spy on us
Those are the issues they dont want us collectively talking about, sharing our lived experiences and how they dont line up with the bullshit our government is gaslighting us with
Fuck your whatsboutism. This is good news; tiktok is a propaganda machine.
so is instagram and facebook but you don’t see people rabidly want to ban them.
Instagram and Facebook aren’t run by the CCP
yes they are run by the us empire, which has a more violent history.
still not seeing the point of banning one over the other
You’re just spouting whataboutism. It’s not an argument, it’s a deflection tactic.
I have no love for Instagram or Facebook. IMO they should both be banned and have all data erased. The planet would be better off without them.
But that’s not the topic of conversation.
The US isn’t an adversarial country to itself. The CCP is an adversarial country to the US, and most of the world.
Ah yes, so the CCP is A-OK because you claim they have a “less violent history”. Makes perfect sense.
Tell me, how many people died during the Long March and the “Great” Leap Forward?
In any case, the bill is not about banning TikTok. The bill is about selling ownership of TikTok to a US owned firm to take away control from the CCP. And then only if a sale cannot be arranged, to ban it as a last resort.
the real enemy of the world is the US by a long shot. what the US does warrants invasions and wars on 3rd world countries by the US, the same isnt true for china.
no country has such a dark and murderous history. my country is on that list and we are suffering from the consequences still, decades later.
and yes, having people die of starvation in one of the poorest countries in the planet is sadly expected. no system of government can fix a country that huge overnight.
banning shit like tiktok like you have a huge moral highground is hypocritical at best when US apps are doing it all around the planet.
e: how could i forget the genocide you are sponsoring
Lemmy is also a propaganda machine, let’s ban this platform too then.
The cyber security professional inside of me wants to agree with you. The Liberal in me doesn’t want to give the government the authority to ban speech and what citizens are allowed to watch.
So you’re going to shut down YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc as well right? Considering they all do the same thing and FB even interfered in an election?
I would 100% be for shutting those down. Doing so would probably lead us into the next Renaissance.
Congress is after TikTok because it’s impacting corporate profits like the boycotts of Starbucks and McD has done. A place where we can collectively communicate with each other outside of the approved echo chambers. They can’t control how we act and think without being able to control the algorithm