TikTok banned in US state of Montana

18 May 2023
The ban is effective from January 1, 2024.

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TikTok empowers people? What a joke. The app is freaking slavery and brainwashing. It should be banned worldwide. Every single parent should be celebrating that their kid isn't going to be rotting away on that app. Enough kids have ruined themselves, even killed themselves because of it.

I also love how ironic it is when China bans everything in the US but they cry when the US bans ONE of their extremely egregious products.

    Ottonis, 19 May 2023So, the lawmakers of this state seem not to be overly tech ... moreAs far as I know, US teenagers are also not that "tech-savvy". Most of them won't know what's "sideloading with APK", or even what's "sideloading" itself. Oh wait, most of them are actually using iPhone. They don't even know there are many phone brands besides Apple iPhone.

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      Anonymous, 19 May 2023Facts Montana give is facts! Another chinese company witch ... moreSure. Ban Facebook in China. Oh wait, it already is.

      China bans a ton of companies. Google, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat are banned to name a few.

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        • 20 May 2023

        Zuzuz, 19 May 2023Just stop spitting the same nonsense as majority! I know pe... moreI'm sorry but "Majority of them are agreed with these measures"?
        Source? Direkt from CCP or your own statistics?
        The best entertainment of me when I stay at China is watching the news says how happy and how rich they are and see the complete opposite.
        Nothing is perfect and western country is far from good, but if you ever think there is any good for a normal people in China. Please, walk with me. Stop listening to those same praise words sent from jail.

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          • 19 May 2023

          Facts Montana give is facts! Another chinese company witch hunt...we should start banning US companies as well. For example Facebook sells their customer data and the government just gives an small slap on the wrist....sure they do an big theatre hearing before that and after the hearing everythings fine.

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            mightyshipppp, 19 May 2023Lmao this is just you be openly hypocritical. Censorship is... moreWell said!

              [deleted post]did you know eating too much junk food can alter your brain chemistry?

                Tritrix, 18 May 2023same for facebook. Same for insta. Same for youtube. D... moreTwitter has WAY more of that type of content than the three sm platforms you listed combined.

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                  IQ200, 19 May 2023The audicity to say this and at the same time living under ... moreJust stop spitting the same nonsense as majority! I know people who live there. I know people who traveled there for work dozens of times. I know chinese people. China is not what you portrayed to be. Different? Yes. But not what you saying or how majority think they are. Compared to your country, they really care in these last decades of their people. Majority of them are agreed with these measures and they think that the Western societies are chaotic, a jungle. Tiktok in the West is not a problem because of the app itself, but because people without judgement/morality are posting a lot of trivial things. That's the core of "free" (soon own nothing and eat bugs) nowadays and not the app problem.

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                    Zuzuz, 18 May 2023You don't appear to be worried about Facebook, google,... moreThe audicity to say this and at the same time living under western world umbrella is really beyond me. Try to live in China for couple of months and then come here to comment about moral and honesty. I'm not saying the west is a heaven like place but c'mon guys... you don't have a slighltlest idea what is China. Why? Because they control all information in their cointry. How is that better then our western world? It's not the same if our allies are spying on us as with western political enemies Russia and China. They don't have a western software in their homeland so what's the problem? Why is such a bad thing if west wants the same thing? What the actual hell guys!?
                    I know the States have plenty of low points in their history, but what do you actually know about China? Only what their country wants you to know.

                    Live long and prosper!

                      Michalis, 19 May 2023I'm happy with censorship as long as it doesn't a... moreLmao this is just you be openly hypocritical. Censorship is bad even if you don't like the thing. I don't care for tiktok but I still see it as the US/Meta/Google going after their competition but saying its about data and spying knowing damn well that Google and Meta and Twitter are spying and collecting data but that's apparently good because they're american. According to them data harvesting is good with a US company but bad for a Chinese one. Be consistent

                        Wonder when we ban Facebook.
                        No need for that brainwashing app.
                        TikTok like many else aint better.
                        All social apps should go.

                          Ottonis, 19 May 2023So, the lawmakers of this state seem not to be overly tech ... moreThe state that has banned it is Montana not Minnesota, but 100% correct I agree with you on everything else. I think they're trying to get it banned nationally at US level honestly

                            So, the lawmakers of this state seem not to be overly tech savvy. Otherwise they would be aware of the fact that anybody inteding to install TikTok would just need to cross the state border upon which Google PlayStore would geolocalize it as "outside of Minnesota" and enable the installation of TikTok.
                            Alternatively, anybody inside Minnesota could just sideload the apk of TikTok and have fun.

                              ae86, 19 May 2023I don't see any problem with explicit contents 🥵Tbh same but people's priorities to "protecting their children" aren't logical in the first place.

                                Anonymous, 19 May 2023USA loves to do this when their superiority is threatened. ... morehttps://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-07-11/Lessons-from-U-S-Japan-trade-war-of-1980s-IcWJh9RjAQ/index.html

                                It happened in 1980 with accusations of tech theft

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                                  Tigolebitties, 19 May 2023One is a dancing app, another one is a platform to earn mon... moreI don't see any problem with explicit contents 🥵

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                                    Vegetaholic, 19 May 2023As long as they ban crap like Tik Tok there is no harmLand of the free...as long as you don't want to be free to use Tiktok...

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                                      Never forget that anyone who shouts "China is stealing our technology!!!" probably has other unhealthy intentions or interests behind the scenes.

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                                        • 19 May 2023

                                        rRadD, 19 May 2023well, tiktok in our country is widely used for misinformati... moreIn my country Facebook & Tweeter is 3x more propaganda especially during elections.