Facebook, and X are hemorrhaging money and can’t compete.
I hope Biden does not sign it.

I like the openness of tik tok and like it isn’t a total right wing cesspool.

I created an account just play around and ended up with several hundred followers in a couple of weeks, all bots. They all w a need me to send them gift cards.

Unbelievable.

It was addictive though, until it became obnoxiously repetitive.

He really shouldn't support this legislation. I am surprised. He could lose some younger voters.

55% of Americans view TicToc.

that reports on its crap. The CCP is the biggest hypocrite in this area.

Personally, after living there as long as I did, I believe all CCP things should be blocked, banned, or heavily restricted and regulated as security risks.

good speech...don't censor." The government should not be telling us which speech is bad and should be censored and which is OK and can be published." It's an old, old argument and I thought that here, of all places, we would not see all this crying for censorship of ideas we don't like and are offensive.

Tik Tok is a threat to national security as a foreign propaganda tool owned by an entity that has ties to a foreign government.

CCP doesn't want to do IPOs in the US because they know it would be subject to American regulators with means all books would be opened. Tik Tok is the same.

Free speech can be restricted on foreign entities with ties to foreign governments.

I happen to agree with much of what you are presenting here. It is very serious. I once worked for the national ACLU (I was Aryeh Neier's executive assistant when he was national director). I attended all of the organization's national board meetings where policy was debated. I'd be very interested in knowing what they have to say!


Just found it here: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-raises-concerns-about-senate-bill-aimed-at-banning-tiktok

to either sell to an American company so it can be regulated by American auditors (which the Chinese government refuses to allow if they want to bring one of their companies to the US) or the foreign company loses the privilege of doing business in the US. Its the same as saying "follow the laws we have or we revoke your business license."

Saying banning tik tok is Communist party propaganda. It's all over my wife's Chinese version of Tik Tok, douyin, with them saying "see, Americans hate us."

The ACLU should say nothing since it's an interstate commerce issue which the Constitution says Congress can regulate. Byte Dance is a foreign company being allowed to do business here.

Its a sale.

From foreign oligarchs to domestic.

But it isn't a shutdown or ban.

It's literally in this OP and most stories. That's all they'll see. That's what this whole thing is going to be perceived by the public.

Regardless, I've asked this elsewhere, "why Tiktok and not other China based apps?"

For instance, CapCut is also owned by ByteDance, the same company that started TikTok. They are the 4th most popular Chinese app in the US (Tiktok is #2) Why does this law ignore them?

IMHO, its because the right wing has made TikTok their boogey man for a while now. They need a political win. This ban/sale/whatever you want to call it is a win for them and a kick in the crotch for Dems.

People, especially young people, like Tiktok. Half of their users are under 34. Pew Research said roughly 60% of the app’s news consumers are Democrats or Democrat-leaning. Fuck with it and you fuck with our re-election success.

Of course, let's not mention the irony of the President's campaign recently opening a Tiktok account.

He'll make it into a Twitter/Musk clone. It's bad enough Twitter has been ruined.