U.S. likely to enact a law soon that could ban TikTok nationwide, President Joe Biden vowed to sign it into law

Since when does Congress ban websites or dictate what apps people can have on their devices? Regardless of how you feel about this particular company, I feel like no one is talking about the internet-killing precedent that's being set here, and that should be concerning.

I'm not a ban fan but social media like that is psychological cancer that is definitely harming the young and old mentally.

Kids growing up these days have the burden of the disgusting need for social media self-promotion. They are conditioned that attention and Likes are the most valuable social currency, and waste so much of their valuable youth pursuing that hollow bullshit.

I'm keeping my kids off social media for as long as I can so they can experience growing up without Cloud-automated peer pressure.

How about a digital bill of rights instead of playing ineffective whackamole?

Good.

Let's go further. Any company using an algorithm to profit off people's engagement has to publish the code.

If I have it correct, the law wouldn’t immediately ban TikTok but would require it to actually be sold to a real US company within a certain amount of days otherwise it’d get banned. The CCP obviously doesn’t want that. So if this passes, TikTok isn’t removed immediately.

Probably what happens is the CCP, I mean Bytedance, sells it to a US company then puts their people there to still siphon data.

While also expanding their own surveillance capabilities, right?

Cool, do Twitter next. Wait, ban Elon..into the sun.

Glad to see Dems are taking the threat of Trump getting into power serious by focusing on issues that their base support:

1. Stop funding and supplying a genocide
2. Packing the clearly biased court so things like student loan forgiveness can pass and all these anti trans and other crazy far right laws get shot down
3. Not breaking rail road workers strikes
4. Banning one of the most popular social media apps

China banned pretty much all the US social media..... I bet, they will complain when the same happens to them......

Goddam this is dumb as shit.

Please help a fellow non-US citizen understand. How can this be a bipartisan agreement and, what’s its difference to the “video games cause violence” bit? I dislike TikTok as well (and I will never use it) but I think banning it nationwide is taking it too far.

House Speaker Johnson plans to package TikTok legislation with critical aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and send it to the Senate. President Joe Biden vowed to sign it into law.

So it's a rider with some important and time sensitive other things that need to pass. Headline is totally (and probably intentionally) misleading.

He could veto it, but it would cause actual harm because those funding bills would have to go back to Congress delaying much needed aid to Ukraine and Taiwan.

What else is in this bill? This will probably make VPNs very popular.

Oh thank God. Tik tok was a mistake. Please for the love of god go after facebook next. Kill the misinformation peddlers one by fucking one

I found this an interesting perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEDGZlG_41k

Apparently the number one reason for the bann is that, 80% of users are pro Palestine and they cannot have the youth take political stances that go against their genocide.

• People: Why doesn’t the government ever pass a law that protects its citizens.

– Government: Here’s a law to protect our citizens from a foreign government spying on them.

– Gen Z: Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!