A lot of the users here are just butthurt anti social media people, not actually principled free speech or rule of law advocates. This ban is arguably unconstitutional and TikTok is being targeted for purely political reasons, not because of any credible threat to “national security.” This is some Patriot Act bullshit, but the clueless mainstream just clamors for it because CNN/Fox spends hours of airtime decrying the dangers of TikTok, and a fraction doing the same for Meta/X/Reddit.
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whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Y’all are dumb as hell for supporting this bill. It doesn’t just ban tiktok, it applies to any app with 20% or more ownership by any person/entity from a country that is a “foreign adversary”.
HiT3k@midwest.social 2 months ago
impure9435@kbin.run 2 months ago
TikTok is literally controlled directly by the Chinese government, which is officially considered a foreign adversary (for a good reason)
HiT3k@midwest.social 2 months ago
Source?
impure9435@kbin.run 2 months ago
There are more than enough sources, just google "TikTok Chinese government influence". Just a few examples:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/07/26/tiktok-chinese-propaganda-ads-europe/
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/11/tiktok-china-us-elections-influence
Also, just think about it: The CCP loves spreading propaganda. There's a massive social media platform controlled by China, which is used by young people in foreign adversary nations. Why wouldn't they leverage this platform to spread their lies and influence people? It's literally the perfect opportunity.
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Not sure if you’ve been paying attention but citizens have no say over stuff like this. 99% of the politicians in office were placed there by rich people - they have the only true votes. The bill included money to Ukraine (great), and Israel (WTF), and Taiwan, and TikTok. It shouldn’t be legal to package all that stuff together, but it’s pretty standard. Anyway not sure who you’re talking to - there are like a few hundred politicians who supported this bill, most of them probably for other reasons, and none of them are on Lemmy.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Talking about the comments here.
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I see, well Lemmy is a bunch of Reddit refugees for the most part. Probably happy to see social media corps dying no matter how?
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Sorry why should I be against that?
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok…?
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
…ok? You realize that actually makes it even better right?
SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 months ago
China does the same.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
So we should do whatever China does??? Are you ready for the firewall? lmfao
AProfessional@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Im not making a stance on it but this isn’t how I read it.
It seems very focused on “social media” as in software that is about users sharing their own content with other users with 1,000,000 monthly active users.
Its not insanely broad and those that support it on tiktok likely would for other similar services.
Buttons@programming.dev 2 months ago
It lists the foreign adversaries, they aren’t just made up on a whim. Iran, N. Korea, China, Russia.
Where is WhatsApp based?
AProfessional@lemmy.world 2 months ago
WhatsApp is American owned. You may be thinking of WeChat?
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
AProfessional@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes I paraphrased the actual bill. Its broad but not without limits.