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What's to stop them from pulling a Konami?

tiktok says we are general striking that day

I was hoping we’d have a new app by now

I’m torn on this one because I support it for completely different reasons, and that’s mostly because TikTok is a cesspool where it promoted those challenges where kids vandalized bathrooms, to calling for bomb threats to encouraging scams and plastic surgeries for minors

They should just go full anti America, would make it a much better app anyway

Lol imagine killing Twitter as well as getting rid of tiktok, looks like the entire youth has just gonna be migrating to Instagram.......Or onto bluesky entirely where there aren't any bots to manipulate algorithms at all Way to kill your AI training programs......

Only American companies can obtain and sell the personal data of Americans! (...to any other country that wants to buy it.) So this is just theft, right.

Isso, deixa o TikTok livre

Honestly with how many small businesses were able to thrive because of the app, it’s no wonder the American government wants to shut it down. It’s never been about the info, it’s been about keeping people quiet and in their places.

So let us form an American LLC & buy it with the intention of keeping it in the same hands that are no threat to begin with. Fake patriots are worried what may be revealed. Tik Tok contact me.

What a joke

Now do Facebook.

Good. Fucken 'em.

I’m assuming this would go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court?

Shame couldn’t make it till after the 20th throw some cash to Trump he’ll let them do anything

I wonder if us tech executives still don't realize this isn't the threat they think it is

Politics aside, am I the only one who thought the image had a silhouette of man in a collared coat with a bucket on his head?

This is ridiculous. China has plenty of data already & VPN's let folks reach the site anyway. Are we supposed to sell it to Russia, is that the oligarch plan? Are they just trying to blackmail China into license deals in the Chinese market? Tick tock, the clock is running for Tik Tok, I guess.

Crazy. Hope they ban it

I mean, the advertisers alone are providing this shit which is terrifying: www.wired.com/story/phone-...

I hope they don't sell. So the US gets locked out of TikTok? Who cares? Why does the US get the right to control every damn thing? No thank you.

What’s the odds that Musk buys it?

This should be interesting. Willing to bet that seeings as Trump is elected and became pro-TikTok after an investor convinced him "it ain't bad." I can imagine it gets banned, then unbanned. So I doubt this will stick. Even if the platform is hot garbage and addictive like crack.

I don’t necessarily disagree with you. I do think there is a legitimate concern with Tik Tok’s gathering of user data by a foreign adversary, but also think it’s a pretty small concern all things considered.

now, i know it's cuz america wants to silence anyone speaking up against their colony doing a genocide but like, jesus christ guys.

Ah, but those are *American* companies; they're allowed to manipulate American citizen data. The issue isn't "is the company using its power for evil," but "is the company using its power to support *foreign* evil." Domestic evil is just free speech! …I am so tired of all this bullshit.

SO True!!!

US gov are jealous that they don't have access to the data, that's all.

Excatly. This ban was never about privacy/data. If it was they would have instead passed better laws protecting data. This is really about the trade war with China.

They're all so awful, especially Meta.

It could be that, but China is a superpower in global politics, and due to the nature of their government, they could force TikTok to share data they've collected. U.S. got nervous when they found out government officials had the app on their phones. Everyone be careful with apps is all.

If they are adversarial why are US companies allowed to do business with them at all?

I've found plenty of science, history, and other information on TikTok. I think its really making a point to watch the right people for your facts. Sure, there's a lot of crap on it, but lots of informative stuff too.

@theonion.com …IJS.

sadly nothing worse than what all these social networking sites do.

Yeah this is just web 3.0, like any SNS post 2007 does this. If there's no product for sale, you are the product.

this issue there is a baffling lack of opsec

Good. Hopefully Temu is next.

The first moves to ban came in were in 2020, long before "tiktok became the primary platform for calling out the genocide in palestine." It really is just about nobody in DC wanting China to effectively own the top US social media app, with all the potential for screwing with us that entails.

I fucking hate TikTok with a passion, but there's no reason to ban the thing. That's straight-up censorship.

Tiktok (the international English version that we use) is banned in China. Let's not be like China, okay?

I want it to go to a progressive company that actually care about human rights. Like the Onion or even a progressive company like the WWF, Genentech or Johnson & Johnson.

It would be perfectly fine to watch him drive it into the ground though. Granted, I don't use it, so I may be a little biased.

im gonna be real i thought they just forgot about it

Just saying, @bencollins.bsky.social ...

Ngl though, TikTok without people from the US would be so much easier to navigate.

Lol. I can think of a few reasons as to why it would be better for those who use it and those who don't for it to be banned rather than the proposed alternative. But what do I know? I'm just another unpaid cloud serf.

So much serious shit going on in the world right now but by all means let’s focus on a fucking social media app.

yea, I can see Cpt Musk trying to worm his way in on bluesky since Twitter is such a shit show now sorry i ment X 💩

Bluesky is open source on purpose. If he buys it everyone shrugs and opens TanSky across the street. I'm sure he would love to Money his problems away, but he can't buy love, which he would need to do to keep a user base. Not a good comparison.

true, but tiktok is Chinese and controlled by the CCP, a paranoid hive of scum and villainy. Meta may be a hive of scum and villainy but it's our hive of scum and villainy. god that's a bad excuse. #justnationalsecuritythings