TikTok Ban: House Passes Bill That Would Outlaw App in U.S. Unless Its Chinese Parent Sells Ownership Stake
TikTok Ban: House Passes Bill That Would Outlaw App in U.S. Unless Its Chinese Parent Sells Ownership Stake
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban TikTok unless its Chinese owner, ByteDance, divests its interest in the app.
I’m not kidding. This will make Gen-Zers vote for Trump. All he has to say is he’ll reverse the ban. He’s already announced that he opposes this bill and that this only supports Facebook.
Biden and the Democrats are so fucking insane. I do not understand it. They want to lose all support with every fucking base they have.
I’ll never stop being on TikTok.
It's very very telling that the bill doesn't force tik tok to change any of its supposedly unacceptable data harvesting capabilites, it just forces them to sell it to an American owned company so we can reap the benefits instead of them.
Unfortunately, as I've literally seen stated verbatim multiple times on reddit, people don't care if governments are controlling social media apps to scrape data for profit and control and moderate content as long as its the US government doing the scraping and controlling.
It's clear the objectives here are to force a purchase of TikTok so that the state can:
- (A) reap the private profits
- (B) install a more cooperative administration so they can:
- (1) gain backdoor access to its data and get easy warrantless searches of American's online activity
- (2) install a moderation / community safety lead who aligns with state interests (similar to ex-cia agents being employed at Facebook, Google, and Reddit) to try and shape the content on the platform, likely to be more bourgeois in character.
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These are definitely bipartisan goals. TikTok has proven itself over the past few years as a kind of gorilla journalism vehicle, by intention or not. Some of the people posting on TikTok likely wouldn't even consider themselves "journalists" by any standard; however, the reality is they are. If someone is posting video of an unfolding event live, from a boots-on-the-ground perspective, they are performing a kind of journalism.
The TikTok algorithm has this uncanny ability (and at times manual ability) to catapult a video in front of nearly everyone on the platform. That kind of exposure to these unfolding events has steadily eroded the base that the mass market media has been sitting on for decades, in a way that no other platform has done before.
I have no doubt that this will pass. Their gross attempts at trying to spin this as some kind of security threat or as the ghoul
has put it "not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-Tac-Toe. A winner. A winner" will slide off the younger generations. To most in that demographic it will appear for what it is, a transparent and patronizing attempt to maintain American hegemony, and nothing more.Make no mistake, when this is passed, you will have your speech on that platform curtailed. You will see the algorithm change to support a more western, bourgeois narrative. American capital will walk away with the reward. You will be left holding the bag. You will see the state execution of TikTok in the town square.
Every accusation is projection, this is no different.
A lot of people think this is a media control thing, but as far as I can tell the US has already forced TikTok to acquiesce to placing US national security apparachiks in positions of power. As a result, I think this motion is simply a favor to Congress's deep-pocketed patrons in Silicon Valley, using "national security" as a pretext.
Of course, it will still lead to censorship.
usa nationalizing industries and lefties being mad smh
vpn is not only for piracy
The 'free market' everyone. If anarcho-capitalists ever abolished the government, they'd have to invent one.
What a pathetic country along with its tech oligarchs who are seething that they can't compete.
Mom: We have cyberpunk at home.
The cyberpunk at home:
This shit is embarrassing. The dem leadership adults in the room don't have the courage, maturity, or intellectual honesty to tell the public that the cold war hysteria justifying the last century of American politics is entirely based on bullshit.
If they're willing to go along with something this stupid because they're afraid to lead, then it's not surprising at all that they're afraid to challenge the narrative around the migrant worker menace.
It goes without saying, they're never going to challenge capital, and if capital begins propagating a judeo bolshevik narrative, don't look to the dems for help.
I don't give a shit about tiktok, but these people are fucking children.
healthcare plzAre they insane or is the whole two-party thing a big theater play and they're taking on the "bad cop" role? Or the stick, as in carrot and stick. Or the "heel" and the "face" of kayfabe. I just feel like they have to know what they're doing. All those teams of people working on campaigns and policies and stuff. Right?
Literally a Bill of Attainder.
Love to live in a Constitutional Republic government by a laissez-faire free market Congress.
I hope one day hexbear gets banned, I’ll finally be able to log off
Why don’t they just accidentally deactivate all TikTok accounts upon selling it, revive musica.ly, and then let people login with their previous TikTok accounts on there
Next we should ban the rest of the apps that harvest our data and make money from it.
One of the bills (the Restrict Act) seems like it is just remaking the Patriot Act but with more spying. So I doubt that this shit will be just allowed to not go into affect even if Tiktok is sold off.
Vid talking about it: https://www.tiktok.com/@sayheyjames/video/7216023076595813678
The bill itself: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text?s=1&r=15
Crackers trying to colonize social media now.
Stupid country.
It’s joever
I’m upset because I’m going to lose the only contact I have with a failed date (who I am not over) and she sometimes likes my reposts and posts of my cat. And the precedent this will set isn’t great either I guess
Damn I’ll have to mourn again
I finally broke down and got Tiktok a month ago, just to follow what's going on in Gaza. Figures.
If tiktok really is controlled by China they could just nuke their servers out of spite
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This is embarrassing. Rapidly, the US is turning into a country that cannot compete honestly in the worldwide market. Chinese app dominating America? We can't possibly have our own app that competes on merit. Let's make it illegal!!!
Chinese with affordable EVs? Tax the shit out of them, how else is Ford supposed to stay in business?
If we knew what we were doing we would have domestic solutions that Americans would utilize. Since we can't compete on level playing ground, we legislate our way out of the problem.
What a turbo autistic take this is (I’m not beating any allegations), but when I moved into my childhood home, my neighborhood and the internet were in similar areas in terms of development. There was still a ton of greenery, forest, wildlife, and ecosystems. Likewise, the internet was pretty barebones (although nothing like the internet I’ve heard about in the 90s). YouTube didn’t exist, yahoo (at least in my area) was the number one player, and I spent my life on nickelodeon.com. I definitely stumbled on some shit I had no business seeing as well (ahh those were the days)
Fast forward 20 years and there’s no green space in my childhood home besides decorative lawns and there is very limited wildlife. Similarly, the internet is highly restricted and its most visited sites treated like a fucking intranet. Now tik tok’s getting banned, so what does this mean for everything else?
Not sure how this little anecdote doesn’t illustrate how aimless progress without the needs of the people in mind doesn’t fuck everyone over.
What the company should do is just shut down before it allows itself to be a tool of US only propaganda or subject to Bobby Kotick playing Elon Musk and nazifying the app.
Make a last public post and an opportunity for people to download their archives. Then roast the fuck out of the fascist investor class butthurt they couldn't have absolute control, despite the fact the NSA copies like every bit that flows through the net.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck why mandarin gotta be so hard
Why do brains have a window for language learning