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You too huh. Tt is the only place we can see real news media. Real information about the terror in Gaza. 170M of us like being informed.

A dull weapon is still a dangerous weapon and will cut more often as you’re unprepared.

They’re all weapons, however the US constitution protects 1st amendment speech of USPersons. USPerson in this context means citizens, legal permanent residents and organizations made up of them. So it’s a lot harder to take action against American media companies than foreign ones.

I must be using it wrong. All I see is sovereign citizens at traffic stops. I don’t see anything political at all.🤷‍♂️

Like heroin. Also, I’ve never had a tic toc

Sir, I'm okay with being weaponized to make bread, butter, hats and support black businesses.

Ooff someone’s out of touch with the reality of the world

Now imagine if the people can love & think about democracy the way they think & love TikTok. The world would be better place than it was before tRump & his cronies came. TikTok is a weapon against humanity bcuz it have people physically attacking others & killing our children with stupid challenges

It's popularity among the youngest generations...

I agree, especially after the events in the past week. Something feels really off. TT is coming up for me, but it's not TT. It was all Chinese vids to start (in manadarin too), and now I'd have to reactivate my account. Huh??!🤔🤔 WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DARK, TIKTOK??!

Exactly. Unfortunately, Twitter is too and EIon's $44B investment already made him $200B.

Says the man who viewed Fox News as an ally until a handful of years ago.

That’s why I left Twitter. It was wall-to-wall Nazis - an app owned by an illegal alien who did a Nazi salute today.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 fact

All your kids are giving their data to the Chinese government and you as a parent have no idea. Imagine what they will do with identity theft alone of your children. Their lives could be ruined before they are adults.

without a countervailing influence saying we deserve better, there is no floor to how poorly we can treat people in this country!

True with 1 big difference. TikTok is tailored to young people. TikTok collects more data from users under 26 yrs old than FB, IG & Twitter collects from users over 26 yrs old COMBINED! Their algorithm is different from the others. It's much better at what it does. That's what scares professionals.

The claim that people must be being manipulated into criticising the state, rather than being genuinely dissatisfied, requires both assumptions.

You mean like russia did with drumpf and the GOP?? 🙄

Does AMERICA provide decently priced livable commodities? No? Is the untied states the only developed country *without* universal HC? Yup. Make me want to stay here you old fuck.

Well if we're limiting free speech to keep us safe, maybe start with hate speech.

AFAIK, a prudent smartphone user can prevent TT from collecting much data about them. Just like with Meta and X. It’s a shame the U.S. doesn’t prevent Americans’ privacy more to begin with, as Europe does.

Kinda like MAGA and Trump eh ? 🤷‍♀️

As exhibited by the people who don't care if China infiltrates our power grid or water supply as long as they have Tik Tok

👍🏽👍🏿👍🏼👍🏾👍🏻👍

I've never used it, but I have a family member who was an addict, and is suffering deep withdrawal symptoms.

BINGO!

The name was soooo creepy. Definitely N Korea and China vibes. It sent chills.

There wasn't misinformation about Gaza. They accurately reported the genocide that Israel was committing.

Agree

You drove your own algorithm, bro. Lol

Unlike FB or Twitter that doesn’t have any misinformation? 🙄

It’s going to get worse when the right controls it

You're free to do that instead. I'd probably agree with your criticisms, too.

I don't dispute that there's an intentional propagandist narrative now...I disagree that there wasn't one before. It was just a different narrative. We just swapped being spoon fed one anti-American propaganda for another.

Yikes

Block, block, block. Mark as not interested. It's definitely compromised, but we managed to turn Tumblr conservatives away in the 2010s, it could be accomplished again. Give them none of the engagement they're seeking.

I agree. I deleted all meta and now TT is off limits too. I have never seen propaganda spread on TT like I do on FB. Now that Trump's grubby hands are all over it that app is dead to me.

Will or may be

In my tik tok experience, this couldn’t be more inaccurate. I hate everything it has ever tried to show me. It’s a smoking junk heap of an app.

Or Instagram where all the crunchy moms find the alt right pipeline to trad wife.

Yeah. They're desperate to eliminate all visible signs of dissent and criticism.

If ever things could be that simple 😂

I love this comment and not because it’s hilarious but because it’s true!

I did hear about it. After the great Twitter exodus, a short, formerly bald dude with a middle aged dad belly and a fake jawline renamed the app to X. He now uses his toddler as a Luigi shield if I’m not mistaken.

I am considerably more concerned about the baw bags taking control of country that TicTok. These ass clowns are far more dangerous.

That’s exactly what Fox does. They’re more dangerous.

Same!!!

They know EXACTLY what they are doing.

In that case, exit the app and go to another. It will let them know that the content made you leave the app.

Because those are US owned and therefore give campaign contributions. That's it. That's all of it. And they didn't ban other Chinese apps because their donors weren't worried about them. Yet. Give it time.

Because the government is a huge behemoth run by crusty old people who haven’t caught up yet. And then there’s the money, they love the money— repeal Citizens United FFS! They absolutely should be reining them in but they’re not, that’s why WE need to cripple them by NOT USING THEM.

Trump is going to be president tomorrow, and that proves national stupidity better than anything else. Selling out to the Chinese-owned TikTok is another proof.

They are more fun than the communists, that's for sure.

American Billionaires, NOT dreaming about world domination: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthr... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Gu... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...

Elon bought the election

And in 2024

Yeah, and Trump won in 2020.

Literally

They are "the" oligarchs.

Many of us have.

In sync!

Never used TikTok. Never wanted to. Glad now that I never did.

Yea, he had all the power to make the changes to the gun laws you want and yet DID nothing!!!!!! He had no opposing forces and yet……… nothing.

Of course they are. Who’s denying that? So you think also having TT in the mix is better? Jesus, we have enough evil-doers domestically without allowing our communist enemies to own a direct portal into our culture and society. They’re doing enough damage via X, Fox, and META ffs.

I detest R wing media & agree they are doing some of same offenses. However they are not trying to steal our defense secrets & physically attack our country.

Oh Puh Leeze.

What are you talking about? I am for massive overhauls, I think what we do now is insane. I’m just explaining why it’s so much harder to pass than a bill. Do you know what it takes to overturn or create an amendment??

I’m glad I’ve never been on TikTok.

I would like to hear more from you on this. I deleted the app. Doesn’t really matter to me anymore. I’m never going back. It is fitting my last TikTok was The People’s March with an overlay of state-sponsored propaganda.

Tried to copy and COULDN'T match

If you like people spying on you...

Getting "hooked" by sounds and vibrations embedded in our language, unconscious and subliminal, which is why all logically reasoned arguments fall flat.... Development of this form of warfare has been ongoing since before the end of the "cold" war. www.powerofmana.net/p/sacred-m-n...

When I tutored Chinese students, we had to show maps of China as owning all of the South China sea and Taiwan. All lessons were constructed by a government board, which was installed once the company became very profitable. All western teachers were fired. Only Chinese could teach children.

Ok old man

as much as we want to love an algorithm that "knows us" and might want to romanticize our own personal spy... #YIKES

oh give me a break.

Congratulations on your preemptive Pardon Adam. 😊😊😊. I am so happy the last POTUS ended his job protecting Americans especially those that stood tall against fascism. I literally feel like we are witnessing the second hit of the twin towers… I hope to God now people start paying attention.

It’s not “propaganda” to be mad that that the government is banning an individual app for privacy and national security concerns instead of attempting to address those same concerns across all social media platforms.

This 💯 The comments here definitely have an addict narrative vibe. Simplistic black and white thinking, false equivalence arguments, pointing fingers, blah blah blah. And as someone who was intimately involved w/Sandy Hook, all those talking gun shit should STFU and fuck all the way off.

Wouldn't surprise me. Age doesn't indicate wisdom/knowledge gained.