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It's very very telling that the bill doesn't force tik tok to change any of its supposedly unacceptable data harvesting capabilites, it just forces them to sell it to an American owned company so we can reap the benefits instead of them.

Unfortunately, as I've literally seen stated verbatim multiple times on reddit, people don't care if governments are controlling social media apps to scrape data for profit and control and moderate content as long as its the US government doing the scraping and controlling.

It's clear the objectives here are to force a purchase of TikTok so that the state can:

• (A) reap the private profits
• (B) install a more cooperative administration so they can:
  • (1) gain backdoor access to its data and get easy warrantless searches of American's online activity
  • (2) install a moderation / community safety lead who aligns with state interests (similar to ex-cia agents being employed at Facebook, Google, and Reddit) to try and shape the content on the platform, likely to be more bourgeois in character.

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These are definitely bipartisan goals. TikTok has proven itself over the past few years as a kind of gorilla journalism vehicle, by intention or not. Some of the people posting on TikTok likely wouldn't even consider themselves "journalists" by any standard; however, the reality is they are. If someone is posting video of an unfolding event live, from a boots-on-the-ground perspective, they are performing a kind of journalism.

The TikTok algorithm has this uncanny ability (and at times manual ability) to catapult a video in front of nearly everyone on the platform. That kind of exposure to these unfolding events has steadily eroded the base that the mass market media has been sitting on for decades, in a way that no other platform has done before.

I have no doubt that this will pass. Their gross attempts at trying to spin this as some kind of security threat or as the ghoul has put it "not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-Tac-Toe. A winner. A winner" will slide off the younger generations. To most in that demographic it will appear for what it is, a transparent and patronizing attempt to maintain American hegemony, and nothing more.

Make no mistake, when this is passed, you will have your speech on that platform curtailed. You will see the algorithm change to support a more western, bourgeois narrative. American capital will walk away with the reward. You will be left holding the bag. You will see the state execution of TikTok in the town square.

Every accusation is projection, this is no different.

A lot of people think this is a media control thing, but as far as I can tell the US has already forced TikTok to acquiesce to placing US national security apparachiks in positions of power. As a result, I think this motion is simply a favor to Congress's deep-pocketed patrons in Silicon Valley, using "national security" as a pretext.

Of course, it will still lead to censorship.

usa nationalizing industries and lefties being mad smh

vpn is not only for piracy

The 'free market' everyone. If anarcho-capitalists ever abolished the government, they'd have to invent one.

What a pathetic country along with its tech oligarchs who are seething that they can't compete.

Mom: We have cyberpunk at home.

The cyberpunk at home:

This shit is embarrassing. The dem leadership adults in the room don't have the courage, maturity, or intellectual honesty to tell the public that the cold war hysteria justifying the last century of American politics is entirely based on bullshit.

If they're willing to go along with something this stupid because they're afraid to lead, then it's not surprising at all that they're afraid to challenge the narrative around the migrant worker menace.

It goes without saying, they're never going to challenge capital, and if capital begins propagating a judeo bolshevik narrative, don't look to the dems for help.

I don't give a shit about tiktok, but these people are fucking children.

It’s like 2000 all over again, with the libs not understanding why Gore and his PMRC wife didn’t animate Gen X and early millennial voters.

One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America

healthcare plz

If there's anything that would mobilize Burgerlanders, it's if their treats get taken away.

Are they insane or is the whole two-party thing a big theater play and they're taking on the "bad cop" role? Or the stick, as in carrot and stick. Or the "heel" and the "face" of kayfabe. I just feel like they have to know what they're doing. All those teams of people working on campaigns and policies and stuff. Right?

Sinotanic Panic

The House vote was 352 to 65, with 50 Democrats and 15 Republicans voting in opposition.

quote from CNN with the actual vote numbers for anyone playing along at home.

Literally a Bill of Attainder.

Love to live in a Constitutional Republic government by a laissez-faire free market Congress.

I hope one day hexbear gets banned, I’ll finally be able to log off

The bill, dubbed the “Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,”

smh, so close to PAFFACACA, which is non-sense, but sounds like a good onomatopoeia for this type of bill

Why don’t they just accidentally deactivate all TikTok accounts upon selling it, revive musica.ly, and then let people login with their previous TikTok accounts on there

Everyone talks about how it's going to piss off gen-Z but I swear all the gen X and older millennials I work with use it more than any of the gen Z I work with.

Next we should ban the rest of the apps that harvest our data and make money from it.

One of the bills (the Restrict Act) seems like it is just remaking the Patriot Act but with more spying. So I doubt that this shit will be just allowed to not go into affect even if Tiktok is sold off.

Vid talking about it: https://www.tiktok.com/@sayheyjames/video/7216023076595813678

The bill itself: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text?s=1&r=15

Sino Scare

Crackers trying to colonize social media now.

Stupid country.

I'm an old Millennial and I don't even understand tick tock. This is an absolutely dumbass move and I don't understand it either

It’s joever

I’m upset because I’m going to lose the only contact I have with a failed date (who I am not over) and she sometimes likes my reposts and posts of my cat. And the precedent this will set isn’t great either I guess

Damn I’ll have to mourn again