TikTok Ban: House Passes Bill That Would Outlaw App in U.S. Unless Its Chinese Parent Sells Ownership Stake

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

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.

It’s like 2000 all over again, with the libs not understanding why Gore and his PMRC wife didn’t animate Gen X and early millennial voters.

One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America

If there's anything that would mobilize Burgerlanders, it's if their treats get taken away.

Are 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?

The House vote was 352 to 65, with 50 Democrats and 15 Republicans voting in opposition.

quote from CNN with the actual vote numbers for anyone playing along at home.

Sinotanic Panic

The bill, dubbed the “Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,”

smh, so close to PAFFACACA, which is non-sense, but sounds like a good onomatopoeia for this type of bill

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

Everyone talks about how it's going to piss off gen-Z but I swear all the gen X and older millennials I work with use it more than any of the gen Z I work with.

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

I'm an old Millennial and I don't even understand tick tock. This is an absolutely dumbass move and I don't understand it either

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 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.

Fuck TikTok. It's a blight on society.

Meh, already blacklisted on my network. Sure the teenager isn't thrilled, but they can just swap off WiFi and use their unlimited data.

But if it gets outright pulled, idk I don't care as I have never used it. I guess something else will quickly take it's place (shorts or something idk).