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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Banning TikTok in an election year is proof Democrats don't want to win.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Lol it was bipartisan. Not just democrats, Republicans as well.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

So what? This only pisses off the Democrat's base and it will make them stay home.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Notably the ban doesn’t kick in until after the election, after which it may not even be Biden’s problem. Maybe ByteDance will shut it down sooner. Maybe the next administration won’t follow through with the ban. 🤷

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

It was smart to delay the ban. The original bill would have banned it before the election - monumentally stupid! This, at least, delays the impact.

People are paying attention, though, and TikTok has been buying ads to campaign against this law. It's still going to have an impact.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

And Biden himself has a tiktok account that pumps out content.

The whole thing is very cynical and weird.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's a piss poor attempt to try control tiktok and ensure they play along. They don't really want it banned, they just want to control the flow of information and it's absolutely destroying the illusion of the first amendment!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ehhh...I doubt it.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The sell-or-ban measure was signed into law by US President Joe Biden on Wednesday.

This is the important part you might have missed, without a president signing it into law it means nothing.

Similar to when Biden said he would never sign a M4A bill (4yrs ago), he would veto, which became a deal breaker to some on the far left.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=biden+veto+medicare+for+all+bill

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

What’s the overlap between people who vote Republican and people who use Tiktok? I’m actually curious.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The age range skews younger, so probably not huge. It's definitely there though - lots of "tradwife" thinly disguised fetish content. 😒

There's a reason Trump came out against this ban, he knows it's going to be unpopular and he loses nothing by flip-flopping on it.

This is just a free W for Trump and an L for Democrats with literally zero upsides. It accomplishes nothing besides pissing people off!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

lots of “tradwife”

Wild, I've never stumbled on any of that. But it has a really sensitive algorithm and I'm pretty firmly entrenched in the science-travel-pets axis.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, unless there’s a credible national security angle that’s being kept confidential. I kind of suspect there is, since Trump tried to push through similar legislation, but worded it so badly that it never got out of debate… and the likes of Wyden voted for it even while they said it was the wrong legislation to solve the problem.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lmao and then they get mad at communist political comissars.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Please don't tell me you actually believe them when they cry about national security. It's almost always a lie.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Usually it’s about economics. But in this case, it may actually be true.

Generally, I consider real natsec issues to be things they can’t tell the public. So when I see privacy minded reps joining in with reps from both side of the aisle, I’m willing to lend a bit of credence to a security angle.

Assuming it’s not just the US being upset that some other autocratic government is controlling the medium du jour.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

... and so by whining about natsec they can get you to support anything, as long as they don't tell you about it?

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's actually already banned in multiple countries, especially for anyone in government positions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

According to the world map in this link the countries that have banned it outright are: North Korea, China, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Krzykstan, India, Nepal, and Somalia.

(For anyone else like me who has trouble with unlabeled maps).

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What about according to the text on that damn page?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The text is poorly organized, the map is faster.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You'd be surprised. I used to work in a rural factory. All the big burly red-neck older men were on tiktok during their smoke breaks.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, that is just another reason the DNC/Democrates will continue to lose support, compared to 2020.

Some also left the duopoly due to following the DNC Fraud Lawsuit, Bernie Sanders 2016.

Interesting times we are living in, we shall continue to follow!

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