Anonymous wrote:Luckily, in a rare bipartisan move, the Senate passed a bill which may see TikTok banned in the USA.

Biden stated he will sign it the moment it reaches his desk.

That's a pretty big clue that this isn't for our benefit

This thread really shows how out of touch many are

Hoping it is banned before the summer. The sooner the better IMO.

do I think that Elon Musk and Meta wouldn't do teh same given a chance - no.

Google/MS I dont know about but yes musk is an open SA apartheid apologizer and nostalgia head and MZ has always been a morally bankrupt d-bag. Musk is truly evil, in a super villain sort of way and zuckerberg's parents just did a crap-job raising their kid to be "good people" they're just not, he's the poster child for banal evil.

Do tiktok's defenders truly believe that American tech companies are an equivalent threat to the Chinese government, which throws its political opponents in concentration camps and harvests their organs?

Anonymous wrote:

Seems pretty cut and dried to me: TikTok is partially owned by the Chinese government, uses it for data mining and spreading disinformation and propaganda. Why are we even debating this?

Because a) the same arguments could be made to apply to any web site with content that some politician dislikes, creating a slippery first-amendment slope, and b) there is no real way to implement this, given the global nature of the Internet, VPNs, etc.

OK, I guess we'll just give up then.

Of course there's more work to be done, but this seems like pretty low-hanging fruit.

Seems pretty cut and dried to me: TikTok is partially owned by the Chinese government, uses it for data mining and spreading disinformation and propaganda. Why are we even debating this?

Because a) the same arguments could be made to apply to any web site with content that some politician dislikes, creating a slippery first-amendment slope, and b) there is no real way to implement this, given the global nature of the Internet, VPNs, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Bye China! Leave our kids alone.

+1

Bye China! Leave our kids alone.

Anonymous wrote:Luckily, in a rare bipartisan move, the Senate passed a bill which may see TikTok banned in the USA.

Biden stated he will sign it the moment it reaches his desk.

He signed it.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2024/04/24/biden-war-aid-tik-tok-ban-sold

Anonymous wrote:Seems pretty cut and dried to me: TikTok is partially owned by the Chinese government, uses it for data mining and spreading disinformation and propaganda. Why are we even debating this?

Because TikToc has already turned so many Americans into addicted Zombies.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems pretty cut and dried to me: TikTok is partially owned by the Chinese government, uses it for data mining and spreading disinformation and propaganda. Why are we even debating this?

The biggest generator of disinformation and propaganda is our own media and social media companies. Just add a reg for social media companies to have user acknowledge this and move on.

OK, but why even let a hostile foreign power in the door?

Anonymous wrote:Seems pretty cut and dried to me: TikTok is partially owned by the Chinese government, uses it for data mining and spreading disinformation and propaganda. Why are we even debating this?

The biggest generator of disinformation and propaganda is our own media and social media companies. Just add a reg for social media companies to have user acknowledge this and move on.

Seems pretty cut and dried to me: TikTok is partially owned by the Chinese government, uses it for data mining and spreading disinformation and propaganda. Why are we even debating this?

Luckily, in a rare bipartisan move, the Senate passed a bill which may see TikTok banned in the USA.

Biden stated he will sign it the moment it reaches his desk.