Yeah, only domestic companies and our government is allowed to spy on us with impunity.

Just frustrating to watch how short sighted this whole tiktok scare thing has been. It brought the data privacy problem to the forefront, and every effort was made to completely disregard privacy as a whole and focus on the China aspect instead.

This is the goofiest culture war debacle I've seen. I'm very ancient so I remember parts of the Satanic Panic, I remember the scare about Mortal Kombat and Doom making kids into murderers, I remember scares about Jackass and knockout games and now we're at scary phone apps. At least back then these reactionary freaks could point at something with at least the veneer of being scary. Satan, video games with blood everywhere, Johnny Knoxville tasering someone in the balls. It's still goofy to get upset about those, but at least it's got the outline of a basic argument.

What is it now? The scary lipsync videos are gonna make your kids into Chinese communists? Good, I hope they all read "On Contradiction" by Mao. I fully expect a tiktok style red army by this time next year or I'm gonna be disappointed.

Also if this is supposed to protect kids then all social media should be banned for kids. That stuff is brain rot and kids deserve better

Under capitalism, profit is revered. However, if you make too much profit, a less profitable company gets to buy you for cheap because your skin is the wrong color.

If the application is not divested, entities in the United States would be prohibited from distributing the application through an application marketplace or store and providing web hosting services.

I wonder if TikTok could continue to exist at the same level of popularity as an app that you download from their website, instead of using the app store?

I wish they just wouldn't sell, and tiktok would go down forever in the US

It basically is an american app already and has lots of ex nato ministers on the board lol

Biden signing this into law would cause him to hemorrhage zoomer voters. I think he’s arrogant enough to do it.