UPDATE 1/18: TikTok OFFICIALLY SHUTS DOWN IN the United States, sends message saying DONALD TRUMP WILL SAVE US to 170 MILLION AMERICANS

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

If anything needs to be banned it's this.

Teaching a whole generation of women (actually regardless of generation) they don't need to work, have dreams, and that any interaction with men should be monetized in every way.

TikTok was essentially the same thing. A lot of creators were slaves and brainwashed.

 

[cyndaquil]

I’m over 30 so this has had no impact on my life whatsoever.

political precedents impact your future. You should be concerned. Ask questions. Why did they ban it? Was the ban justified? What else can they ban using this legality?
Even if you don't like tiktok or dont care about it, it's important to ask these questions and understand why

 

[bnew]

Idk man they've been calling the app Chinese Spyware since it initially launched stateside and numerous people in the cybersecurity sector seemed to not even wanna touch it. If its deemed a threat to national security then the government should have a right to ban it for the good of the country no?
There's a difference between censorship and safety. I think you strongly believe there is nothing malicious about tiktok and that it is not a threat but how do you know for sure?

i believe tiktok is just a malicious as every other social media app which are allowed to collect a massive amount of data from users. regulate all or none but targeting a platform because you don't like the origin of the owner should not be a valid way of setting policy. congress admitted they don't have evidence of anything. people know how these companies collect data on them, they assume their phone microphones are listening to them yet they still use these apps.

 

[cyndaquil]

i believe tiktok is just a malicious as every other social media app which are allowed to collect a massive amount of data from users. regulate all or none but targeting a platform because you don't like the origin of the owner should not be a valid way of setting policy. congress admitted they don't have evidence of anything. people know how these companies collect data on them, they assume their phone microphones are listening to them yet they still use these apps.

so ban all social media apps? Would that solve the problem all together? What level of access should these companies have? Can people truly consent to data collection when they have no actual understanding of what it is being used for or could be done with it?

 

[horizon]

Ya'll really that damn addicted to ya'll phones

AND dikk riding China to boot?

Couldn't be me.

You're just yapping breh, take a seat.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

political precedents impact your future. You should be concerned. Ask questions. Why did they ban it? Was the nan justified? What else can they ban using this legality?
Even if you don't like tiktok it's important to ask these questions and understand why

Free speech and privacy has been a fallacy ever since the Patriot Act got passed. Since then, it has continued to erode. If the banning of TikTok is what takes for people to realize this then…

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Yall are so uneducated on this subject I feel sorry for yall. All you have to do is take the time to go read some shyt.

Trump was the one who initiated all of this in 2020. shyt would not even be possible without Trump putting the shyt in motion. Only someone uneducated on the situation would frame it as Trump saving tik tok considering he’s the reason their in this position in the first place. Biden just looked into what he already said and agreed and sent it up to the supreme court who agreed.

Also this shyt should be banned. Facebook, instagram, twitter and many more social media apps are banned in china

 

[Kingshango]

so ban all social media? Would that solve the problem all together?

Old heads wanna go back to the 90s so bad, damn what everyone else thinks.

“ Go outside” and do what nikka?

Movies suck, concerts suck, the arcade is dead, the club scene is dead, libraries are being torn down. It ain’t the 80’s/90’s no more.

 

[CantStop]

this ban won't last more than a week

trump will play "hero"

the dramatics I see online is actually insane. nothing on your phone should be that important that it makes you emotional.

 

[jadillac]

They freaking banned CapCut too.

What. The. Hell.

How can anyone support this sht?

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

The fact they namedropped Trump tells me some sort of deal is being worked out so he can claim a W for the retards...

And by the way, A lot of cooked Gen Z fakkits already voted for him anyway, this isn't some groundbreaking thing, white people of all generations voted for Trump

 

[bnew]

so ban all social media apps? Would that solve the problem all together? What level of access should these companies have? Can people truly consent to data collection when they have no actual understanding of what it is being used for or could be done with it?

i never said ban anything


regulate doesn't equal ban. they can regulate the data collection practices and policies of these companies to make them develop apps that collect very little info and determine how long that data can be kept.

 

[Lord Beasley]

Where's the proof of this, breh? If this was really the case it would have been stopped 5 years ago. It's more of a billions are being made by China and America is getting zilch

But Whether ur point is actually true or not, this is not the main narrative for most ppl supporting the shut down. "It's causing brain rot", "It's nothing but dancing...."

It's one of those "we haven't given info and they haven't asked" but they're a Chinese-based corporation. That info is 100% always available to CCP officials upon request.....this is documented fact. So logically you would treat it as if they always have access, because ByteDance would get that ass fined or worse if they ever told Xi "no"

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP): A Quest for Data Control

We assess apps owned by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the potential threat posed to users. Does the PRC leverage these apps for data collection and influence operations?

www.cisecurity.org

You mfs think this shyt is a game

 

[ManBearPig]

 

[horizon]

Yall are so uneducated on this subject I feel sorry for yall. All you have to do is take the time to go read some shyt.

Trump was the one who initiated all of this in 2020. shyt would not even be possible without Trump putting the shyt in motion. Only someone uneducated on the situation would frame it as Trump saving tik tok considering he’s the reason their in this position in the first place. Biden just looked into what he already said and agreed and sent it up to the supreme court who agreed.

Also this shyt should be banned. Facebook, instagram, twitter and many more social media apps are banned in china

Trump put in motion then lost the election, Biden had 4 years to kill this shyt but it moved through Congress with bipartisan support and he already said he would ban it if the bill hit his desk. TikTok came through and took marketshare from Meta and other platforms and the ADL decided it had to go when they saw how much pro-Palestine content there was. And that's not even conspiracy shyt, we have audio of the head of the ADL saying why TikTok became a problem.

170 million Americans used that app, this shyt is wildly unpopular but Coli users weirdly pride themselves on being woefully out of touch with what's going on in the world.