US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
Lawmaker: TikTok must "sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."
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
I don't get why you draw parallels here. The reactionaries are against veneer-of-spooky pieces of media because of moral outrage bullshit. Media literacy is a thing. Nobody is going to believe in dragons or Satan.
The US government is against big China-controlled media platforms with loads of US users because platforms can control which kind of content users see. You can exert a lot of control over people if you show them only one point of view and make them think this is the majority.
I think the US has enough of a problem with home grown radicalized conspiracy nuts, but banning a China owned TikTok is still a very different move than banning D&D would have been.
There is soft power in controlling a platform with a lot of people. Just look how TikTok used it to organize a massive campaign via hijacking TikTok feed to inform them about potential ban and redirect them to their representatives. During conflict, it can be used more nefariously. But them singling out TikTok while not doing anything against their domestic platforms does make it hypocritical and make people question their motives.
Any app or any business that is being largely impacted by legislation will ask their customers to push for a favorable outcome. I've seen American businesses ask their customers to call Congress about one thing or another a bunch of times. This isn't "nefarious" or "hijacking a platform" it's normal business behavior
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?
Can you side load IOS apps? (Genuinely curious)
If no, then that's a big nail in the coffin. They could try and make it a web app, but that's not gonna be a smooth transition.
I think Europe recently forced the matter, but I think you can't in the US.
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
Fr this is just redundant and voted on by dumbass boomers who know nothing about technology
Biden signing this into law would cause him to hemorrhage zoomer voters. I think he’s arrogant enough to do it.
tbf it's not as though he had a whole lot of them left to begin with
Dems: "Young people don't vote anyway!"
(Record youth turnout for Trump)
Dems: "AH, well, nonetheless..."
So which app will be the new cool thing after Tiktok?
TikTok owned by a company owned by a company owned by a company owned by China.
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.