UPDATE 1/20: TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER: SELL TIKTOK TO US OR WE'RE TARIFFING CHINA. You have 75 days!!!!

[Insensitive]

These threads always get fukking weird and bring out this stockholm syndrome energy.

I wanna shake y'all awake man

Kamala Harris was running campaigns and paying influencers to influence just TWO AND A HALF fukkING MONTHS
AGO ON THIS APP.


Last minute the Dems tried to fight to keep it unbanned.

Like you can't actually believe it's a bigger threat to our national security than fukking Youtube/Facebook/Reddit/4Jackie and all
of those other platforms that have contributed to the rise of the alt. right and literally incubated fukking mass shooters.

I gotta question your ability to think for yourself if this is what you choose to believe.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

These threads always get fukking weird and bring out this stockholm syndrome energy.

I wanna shake y'all awake man

Kamala Harris was running campaigns and paying influencers to influence just TWO AND A HALF fukkING MONTHS
AGO ON THIS APP.


Last minute the Dems tried to fight to keep it unbanned.

Like you can't actually believe it's a bigger threat to our national security than fukking Youtube/Facebook/Reddit/4Jackie and all
of those other platforms that have contributed to the rise of the alt. right and literally incubated fukking mass shooters.

I gotta question your ability to think for yourself if this is what you choose to believe.

You clearly don't understand how soft power actually works, do you

 

[Insensitive]

Same posters in this thread who get weirdly "Pro-America" and start talking about "Freedom"
struggle mightily with the history of America literally assassinating black leaders.

How do you reconcile these two belief systems in your head?

Do you really feel they do any banning of information and suppressing of others for YOUR SAFETY?


fukking Luigi can't even keep a sub-reddit on Reddit and y'all think FREE SPEECH is something you enjoy
on these platforms?

Get fukking real man.

 

[CantStop]

Ppl have been making major money off youtube and IG for over a decade.

There's no sign of thar slowing down. It can't really get oversaturated bc more eyeballs = dollars to apps

Yes, YOU individually might say too many ppl are dancing on an app, but those ppl are gaining followers bring money for advertisers to thesr apps

its a lot easier to make money off tik tok than youtube. short form content, algorithm, tik tok lives. it's easier entry which is why i'm saying it's going to be oversaturated. of course youtube pays better but the lifespan of videos last longer. comparing apples to oranges. your friends wouldn't realistically make a comfortable living on tik tok because its always going to be on to the next. if they were popping on youtube, that's different. did your friends have this impression that apps are forever lasting and they were going to live happily ever after?

 

[Yapdatfool]

There have been worse sites that have done more damage than TikTok ever did but are still operating in the US. I don’t wanna name names but I’m sure y’all know which ones I’m talking about.

I wanna name names!

Google
Facebook
Apple
IG
Youtube
Twitter/X

All of em participate in the same shyt tiktok do.

How y'all know all the data they collect isn't going to the US gov't like tiktok is to the CCP?

How y'all know they apps don't work the same way tiktok app do?

 

[cyndaquil]

It doesn't matter where the server was located. Becaue bytedance is a Chinese company that have to give the Chinese Communist Party full access to the server. Period. Some of yall really want to keep your eyes closed on how Authortarian the CCP is.

That is true. A data center can be based in the US but contains servers that serve data remotely to anywhere in the world. It isn't hard to believe that the Chinese could hide a back door into each of those servers or plain old just access them remotely via ByteDance. Are there mandatory security audits done on servers hosted in the US but owned by entities in other countries? Do you know who the vendor of the data center was @Insensitive? Are the Chinese able to build proprietary data centers on US soil?

 

[Diddly Drogba]

For the in favor of this ban I hope the government decides the coli is a threat to national security and shuts it down.

 

[jadillac]

its a lot easier to make money off tik tok than youtube. short form content, algorithm, tik tok lives. it's easier entry which is why i'm saying it's going to be oversaturated. of course youtube pays better but the lifespan of videos last longer. comparing apples to oranges. your friends wouldn't realistically make a comfortable living on tik tok because its always going to be on to the next. if they were popping on youtube, that's different. did your friends have this impression that apps are forever lasting and they were going to live happily ever after?

Regardless of whether ppl are using it long-term or otherwise, it's what ppl are using RIGHT NOW to eat, pay bills etc. Maybe next year they figure out something else to do. We're in a free country, free market economy. That should not be compromised

 

[bnew]

That’s irrelevant to my point. Are the apps banned or not?

I’m just trying to educate the coli with facts not opinions and people can come to their own conclusion.

A few facts:

1. Donald Trump kicked all this shyt off.
2. Biden administration looked into it and thought it was a national security threat
3. A bill was made and got bipartisan support
4. Supreme Court passed a law
5. The social media apps Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are banned in china

russia and Myanmar ban them too but the u.s government hasn't banned any apps or websites.

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[JP_614]

You clearly don't understand how soft power actually works, do you

Explain my man

 

[Boujee Bonita Braxton]

2 and a half hours in and I’ve already tried to open the app about 6 times out of pure instinct.

 

[Kingshango]

For the in favor of this ban I hope the government decides the coli is a threat to national security and shuts it down.

And redirect them to Lipstick Alley.

 

[bnew]

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

i read half of tiktok users are over the age of 30.

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

I miss TikTok man, it put me on to a lot of shyt

 

[Insensitive]

That is true. A data center can be based in the US but contains servers that serve data remotely to anywhere in the world. It isn't hard to believe that the Chinese could hide a back door into each of those servers or plain old just access them remotely via ByteDance. Are there mandatory security audits done on servers hosted in the US but owned by entities in other countries? Do you know who the vendor of the data center was @Insensitive? Are the Chinese able to build proprietary data centers on US soil?

It's all outlined here:

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