Bill Unveiled To Ban TikTok From U.S. Unless Company Makes Massive Changes

[Musings]

China doesn't do chest thumping to be the flag bearer of 'freedom'.

The US and European tantrum against free speech and free trade has exposed the hypocrisy and hollow chest thumping of the 'free world'.



You are free to accept whatever disadvantages you chose to cater to your beliefs.

Nature is delightfully fair in letting anyone shoot themselves in the foot.

My life will never be the same.
TikTok is going to be banned in the USA - don’t know how I’m going to cope. Distraught devastated……….. perhaps not

 

[Get Ya Wig Split]

My life will never be the same.
TikTok is going to be banned in the USA - don’t know how I’m going to cope. Distraught devastated……….. perhaps not

Sorry to tell you buddy but your twerking career is coming to an end...jk

 

[Developereo]

Keep crying all you want...TikTok's gonna get the boot soon that's all that matters to me.

LOL, pretty sure I am not the one throwing the tantrum about banning companies and paying more to avoid products.

The 'free world' hypocrisy is exposed with these tantrums, and the phrase 'national security' has been turned into a laughing stock by the US.

 

[Musings]

@Khansaheeb

Bro I think you put that post on the wrong thread?

 

[Get Ya Wig Split]

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[retaxis]

the fact that trash content is popular on tiktok tells us more about the American social demographic and gender identity at this point in time. Its literally showing us that American culture is decaying thru hedonism and fluid sexuality and drug abuse. Couple that with the 35trillion debt and soon to be minority white population, its a massive keg about to burst.

 

[dbc]

LOL, pretty sure I am not the one throwing the tantrum about banning companies and paying more to avoid products.

The 'free world' hypocrisy is exposed with these tantrums, and the phrase 'national security' has been turned into a laughing stock by the US.

You'd probably change your tune in a hurry if TikTok was owned by the Indian government with a massive user base in Pakistan.

Would you let Indians control news and media outlets in your country? Or control any means to influence the Pakistani masses?

Have you forgotten that Chinese corporations be it private or public are required by law to make all data available to government agencies on demand. ‘free world’ doesn't mean free access to hostile nations.

 

[Developereo]

You'd probably change your tune in a hurry if TikTok was owned by the Indian government with a massive user base in Pakistan.

So now we are using Pakistani government as the barometer of freedom?
Lo, how the mighty have fallen!

Would you let Indians control news and media outlets in your country? Or control any means to influence the Pakistani masses?

India already controls what multinational companies can or cannot when they operate out of India. Has everybody forgotten the Twitter raids?

Yet the US has no qualms about US companies doing business in India under Indian government laws.

Have you forgotten that Chinese corporations be it private or public are required by law to make all data available to government agencies on demand. ‘free world’ doesn't mean free access to hostile nations.

TikTok has already said that its user data is kept separate outside China. The US is just throwing a tantrum and using 'national security' yet again as an excuse to stifle competition. Now even Chinese cars are a 'national security' threat.

Sounds like someone is nationally very insecure.

 

[dbc]

So now we are using Pakistani government as the barometer of freedom?
Lo, how the mighty have fallen!

Go back and read my post once again.
Don't get personal.

 

[Beijingwalker]

TikTok sparks user revolt in US over sale plan​

Published
March. 8 2024

IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
By James FitzGerald
BBC News, Washington DC

American politicians are being inundated with calls from TikTok users unhappy at plans to force its parent company to sell the social media app.

A bill that would mandate the sale within six months or see TikTok facing a ban was approved by a US congressional panel on Thursday.

Earlier, users of the app had received a notification urging them to act to "stop a TikTok shutdown."

A congressional aide told the BBC their office had received dozens of calls.

One Congressman said he had been contacted by children over the matter

TikTok confirmed to the BBC it had sent a notification urging TikTokers to "call your representative now" to urge them to vote against the measure.

The bill is expected to go to a full House floor vote next week.

It has been proposed by a cross-party group of 20 lawmakers who form the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.

It was approved unanimously 50-0 on Thursday by the Energy and Commerce Committee. The Senate would need to approve it before it became law.

The committee chairwoman criticised TikTok's mobilisation of its users, to which the platform responded: "Why are members of Congress complaining about hearing from their constituents? Respectfully, isn't that their job?"

The bill pledges to "protect the national security of the United States from the threat posed by foreign adversary controlled applications".

Lawmakers say TikTok's owner ByteDance has links with the Chinese Communist Party - something denied by ByteDance and TikTok.

The bill makes specific reference to ByteDance - which would be forced under the terms of the bill to sell TikTok, or face removal from mobile app stores in the US.
It does not contain any provision for individual users of the app to face legal action.

"America's foremost adversary has no business controlling a dominant media platform in the United States," said committee chairman Mike Gallagher, a Republican of Wisconsin.

Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat, said TikTok posed "critical threats to our national security" because its parent company was "required to collaborate" with China's political leadership.

The bill's proponents deny the move amounts to an overt ban on TikTok, arguing that ByteDance is being given a window of about six months to comply.

But in a statement posted to X, TikTok described the move as "an outright ban... no matter how much the authors try to disguise it".

"This legislation will trample the First Amendment rights of 170 million Americans and deprive 5 million small businesses of a platform they rely on to grow and create jobs."

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) agreed, saying the move represented an effort to score "cheap political points during an election year".

The ACLU further highlighted that many Americans relied on the app for information and communication.

The proposed legislation represents the latest attempt by American lawmakers to curb TikTok.

The app is banned on US government devices - although the re-election campaign of President Joe Biden has an account.

An attempt by former US President Donald Trump to ban TikTok and Chinese-owned WeChat hit legal obstacles and never came into force.

 

[Beijingwalker]

Tik Tok is one example of China's soft power, soft enough to sparks users in US to revolt against their politicians.

 

[dbc]

Tik Tok is one example of China's soft power, soft enough to sparks users in US to revolt against their politicians.

You do know the meaning of the word revolt? And then you confirm TikTok is a medium for China to project power.

 

[KingQamaR]

The US Censorship Industrial Complex doesn't care about Ch ina getting your data or kids being harmed, they want to ban TT because it's an app they don't control that millions of Americans use to communicate....

 

[Qmjd]

ByteDance should be forced to divest TikTok. I will never download TikTok until it’s free from CCP control

facebook wants my ID card/ passport/ licence copy to prove that i am legit, here american are at risk of losing what login id,
Shame on mindless zombies

 

[Developereo]

Go back and read my post once again.
Don't get personal.

Nothing personal. My comment was about the US government.

The US government is making an issue about TikTok because the US government wants to control what American citizens can see.

Ordinary US citizens are perfectly happy with TikTok.