Gen Z problems
TikTok is urging users to call Congress about a looming ban
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AStrangeName
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Plus what some aren't realizing that it's election season, so they want TikTok out of the picture to make sure they don't run into the same problem they ran into four years ago, when politicians/government were getting put on blast for everyone to see.
US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
Lawmaker: TikTok must "sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."
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US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
Lawmaker: TikTok must "sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."
JON BRODKIN - 3/7/2024, 5:34 PM
Enlarge / TikTok ad at a Metro station in Washington, DC on March 30, 2023.
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The House Commerce Committee today voted 50-0 to approve a bill that would force TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the company or lose access to the US market.
The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act "addresses the immediate national security risks posed by TikTok and establishes a framework for the Executive Branch to protect Americans from future foreign adversary controlled applications," a committee memo said. "If an application is determined to be operated by a company controlled by a foreign adversary—like ByteDance, Ltd., which is controlled by the People's Republic of China—the application must be divested from foreign adversary control within 180 days."
If the bill passes in the House and Senate and is signed into law by President Biden, TikTok would eventually be dropped from app stores in the US if its owner doesn't sell. It also would lose access to US-based web hosting services.
"If the application is not divested, entities in the United States would be prohibited from distributing the application through an application marketplace or store and providing web hosting services," the committee memo said.
Chair: “CCP weaponizes applications it controls”
The bill was introduced on Tuesday and had 20 sponsors split evenly between Democrats and Republicans. TikTok urged its users to protest the bill, sending a notification that said, "Congress is planning a total ban of TikTok... Let Congress know what TikTok means to you and tell them to vote NO."Many users called lawmakers' offices to complain, Congressional staffers told Politico. "It's so so bad. Our phones have not stopped ringing. They're teenagers and old people saying they spend their whole day on the app and we can't take it away," one House GOP staffer was quoted as saying.
House Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) said that TikTok enlisting users to call lawmakers showed "in real time how the Chinese Communist Party can weaponize platforms like TikTok to manipulate the American people."
"This is just a small taste of how the CCP weaponizes applications it controls to manipulate tens of millions of people to further their agenda. These applications present a clear national security threat to the United States and necessitate the decisive action we will take today," she said before the vote.
The American Civil Liberties Union opposes the TikTok bill, saying it "would violate the First Amendment rights of hundreds of millions of Americans who use the app to communicate and express themselves daily."
Bill sponsor: “It’s not a ban”
Bill sponsor Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) expressed anger at TikTok for telling its users that the bill would ban the app completely, pointing out that the bill would only ban the app if it isn't sold."If you actually read the bill, it's not a ban. It's a divestiture," Gallagher said, according to Politico. Gallagher also said his bill puts the decision "squarely in the hands of TikTok to sever their relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."
TikTok issued a statement calling the bill "an outright ban of TikTok, no matter how much the authors try to disguise it." The House Commerce Committee responded to TikTok's claim, calling it "yet another lie."
While the bill text could potentially wrap in other apps in the future, it specifically lists the ByteDance-owned TikTok as a "foreign adversary controlled application."
"It shall be unlawful for an entity to distribute, maintain, or update (or enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) a foreign adversary controlled application," the bill says. An app would be allowed to stay in the US market after a divestiture if the president determines that the sale "would result in the relevant covered company no longer being controlled by a foreign adversary."
Tiktok one of the few social media places where racists get foot on neck constantly. Ofc they going Engage Eight on em
it's harder for racists to operate there since everyday people tend to show their actual faces. i've come across some profiles where they usually just have text over some news reports or some other video footage but they don't get as many views as left-leaning topical videos because they refuse to show their face.
this will eventually change in 2-3 years when A.I will make it possible for the layperson to create a fake face and voice on demand.
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Silver Surfer
Veteran
Ban that BS
Elim Garak
Veteran
I don't think this will make it through both houses ,but that is just my guess.
They're not going to ban that shyt even though I wish they would. The amount of young black people being indoctrinated into self hatred is astounding. Social media in general is wild but Tik Tok is particularly bad because of the way their algorithm works.
Tribal Outkast
Veteran
TikTok has the juice. I bet nothing happens to them.. if something was going up happen it would’ve already happened. Imagine losing your cushy voter appointed job because TikTok was banned
why do you want it banned? is there a precedent for a ban of this type?
Silver Surfer
Veteran
It's the most downloaded app
It has access to your phones data....US citizens data
It send this data directly back to a foreign adversary
Do you lack common sense?
Folks that don't mind must've forgotten that TikTok setback soooo many Americans when all those Kias/Hyundais were being stolen across the country. Insurance companies canceling policies people scrambling to keep their transportation safe, folks having to pay for busted out windows, people that had their cars stolen, totalled, or recovered weren't given the full value ON TOP of inflated used market pricing. TikTok literally affected a whole industry negatively in real time
Sly Cookin
based
Posters with the "supporter" tag have really showed their ass these last couple of months. You hate to see it
same things go for all the major social media websites and data can be purchased from data brokers by foreigners and has been for well over a decade now.
why do you want to give the government the power to ban websites or applications/services that haven't broken the law? don't you think that's a dangerous precedent?
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