Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

Cool, now let's ban Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and every single social media platform that does the same exact thing as TikTok. I have never used TikTok, but this is fucking bullshit. Facebook literally ruined elections and lives around the world.

I thought that US was the country of freedom, but turns out that the freedom is just to racists, nazis and for them to fuck up other countries.

Does the legislation also include penalties for Samsung for preinstalling TikTok on my fucking Smart TV and making the app non-removable ?

I don't understand why people get so upset about this. Yes, Google, Facebook, etc. hoard your data too. But there's a big difference wether that data is hoarded domestically or by a foreign nation that is pretty blatant about their industry espionage and political propaganda. Yes, the US do it too. But you really can't blame a country for protecting it's interests, be they ethical or not.

The US encourages international business competition, but not if you do it better than they do.

We've not actually seen for sure that TikTok data is being passed to the Chinese government - supposedly the USA data is being kept separately. But we have certainly seen US data brokers gathering data from all over in the US and selling that on to any 3rd party (domestic government, as well as anyone else). Facebook has been caught more than once being in the business of leaking private data. I'm just surprised that the US gov did not leave this choice up to its citizens to choose on - the ideas of freedom of choice and speech seem to be rather dictated here now.

I'm just wondering if it is not more a case of the US gov has no control itself over TikTok (think US CLOUD Act) and this is what is irking them. I'm not in the US so one way or the other I don't really mind. What I do mind about though is that TikTok does not sell out to a US company. We really don't need one single country controlling all the mainstream social media platforms. US laws after all do not represent all of mankind, so some diversity is a good thing.

So I guess I'm rather for a "ban" than a "sell out".

I love that this and more funding for other countries' wars are a higher priority than the housing crisis.

I don't like big government but I have zero sympathy in this case. TikTok is the greatest cancer on modern society and I will not change my mind on that.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/former-treasury-secretary-mnuchin-is-putting-together-an-investor-group-to-buy-tiktok.html

It's a big club, and you ain't in it.

So much easier than passing an actual data privacy law--and maybe Bobby Kotick will buy TikTokUSA!

VPN subscriptions about to explode.

Naturally, they'll try to ban VPNs next.

Then why is the bill about DIVESTMENT of Tiktok from Chinese ownership? The operation headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore. I'm beginning to think you don't know what you're talking about.

Interesting that Temu and AliExpress are also China owned, yet there’s no mention of any issues with them.

And nothing of value was lost.

It will be interesting to see if tiktoks newest big selling point (relatively free from US influence) will be able to offset it's loss in users.

These threads/articles always get the facts wrong, TikTok is not "getting banned", they are just forcing the company to divest from it's Chinese parent company.

Thanks for protecting Americans from misinformation, AIPAC.