US passes revised bill that could ban TikTok within a year

22 April 2024
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AnonD-1153685, 22 Apr 2024Same with fake and made up VW scandal about emissions Y... morenah, VW just got caught, other brands are doing the same thing as well. And screw them for what they did. The US should be fully electrified by now, so shame on VW for extra pollution and inefficiency. I will never purchase one of their vehicles.

    This is what happens when we have old people in congress making all the decisions. They don't represent the masses at all. The US has no democracy by extension. If congress got together and tomorrow decided nobody is allowed to eat bananas, congratulations, bananas would be banned from the country, even though 99% consume them.

    The words plutocracy, oligarchy, kakistocracy, managed democracy, inverted totalitarianism etc should not routinely come up in casual conversations online regarding the US if it was a real democracy. They would be relegated to academia only.

      Mills, 22 Apr 2024Ah yes, so American companies can steal user data but other... moreYes, Google and Meta do sell your personal info. But TikTok does even more. It tracks every single thing you do in the app, and attempts to track you while outside of the app. Yikes! (Google and Meta also do the latter to an extent.)

      Everyone should just use FOSS, as your personal info stays private.

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        • 33I
        • 22 Apr 2024

        YouTube for the win .
        Now imagine how much YouTube, Instagram = Facebook paid for this to happen!

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          • 22 Apr 2024

          WhoCaresTM, 22 Apr 2024The hypocrisy is unreal. US politics is basically dumping v... moreSame with fake and made up VW scandal about emissions YEAH RIGHT

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            • 22 Apr 2024

            Hzzif, 22 Apr 2024One of a kind paranoia towards Chinese companies..This is NOT about china ONLY this has been for 30 years.. don't u see or detected long time that if someone invents something cool and it genetrates big money USA gov immediately targets and what is firs is to try to bribe inventors with fake USA free printed money so they will always offer some littel pennies to inventors they obvisously want to get rich but what USA does they will immediately speed the ''getting rich for them to give them those fake money from government so they can enjoy them straight away .. ANd that one
            few bilions or couple of milions is nothing for USA .. They will easily add it to USA debt and it is fine.. Main thing is that popular invented app or feature is owned by them and money will be pouring to USA for decades.. IF USA can't buy popular platform or invented idea they will threaten the company if they will refuse sell and ultimately will destroy them ..

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              • 22 Apr 2024

              Tiktok is out of control. some of the video should be rated R. I support the ban because I don't want kids to watch some of these video. Facebook video getting ridiculous too.

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                • 22 Apr 2024

                JSK888, 22 Apr 2024What's the problem with collecting my information? Eve... moreIt's all about money it is absolutely NOT for some spy or collecting sh!t.. they absolutely don't care about collecting ppls money they only using this fake scam and lie to make it scare for majority naive so for ppl

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                  • 22 Apr 2024

                  Ah well how usa amerikas wants all social media under them so big money will be pouring to them not to china.. I would only sell tik to for unlimited price so I would OWN USA and would rename it rebrand it and do what I want to do with the whole country .. Until then I wouldn't sell it

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                    • 22 Apr 2024

                    Banning TikTok will just mean that another company will come in to fill that space

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                      • 22 Apr 2024

                      ikek, 22 Apr 2024Just so you know, this ban is only for the US territories. ... moreEveryone know tiktok is trash but this is about economic warfare us want to play with the whole world.

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                        • 22 Apr 2024

                        ikek, 22 Apr 2024Just so you know, this ban is only for the US territories. ... moreWhy us want to buy tiktok?

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                          • 22 Apr 2024

                          Everyone getting mad at this makes me laugh. Nothing valuable might get lost if they ban it. TikTok collects waaay more data than other US based apps, they collect even your device battery level lol. The Cambridge Analytica scandal became a concern for similar information gathered by Facebook/Meta back in the day.

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                            • 22 Apr 2024

                            Spying not problem paying influence to read propaganda to kid

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                              Kezkouz, 22 Apr 2024I'm sick of how the US treats the rest of the world. W... moreJust so you know, this ban is only for the US territories.

                              You are crying as if TikTok was a life changing app. It's utter trash. No good thing will come out of the mind of people that are sticking their eyes and noses all day-long on TikTok.

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                                • 22 Apr 2024

                                alcatraz, 22 Apr 2024Just ban it, so what? They can use vpn to circumvent the ba... moreIsn’t vpn banned

                                  Just ban it, so what? They can use vpn to circumvent the ban.

                                  It'll just be another thing that gets censored, just like unpopular opinions etc. When they want the freedom back they can elect people that value it.

                                    It wouldn't be so bad if China wasn't so communist.

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                                      • 22 Apr 2024

                                      Barry Egan, 22 Apr 2024Jesus bless America 🙏Jesus would be happy to use Tik Tok, USA sucks.

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                                        Kezkouz, 22 Apr 2024I'm sick of how the US treats the rest of the world. W... moreinjustice is repulsive regardless