"I don’t think we should ban a platform because it competed too hard and became popular, especially when the direct beneficiaries of a ban are companies that are doing most of the same apparent algorithmic poisoning of America, just from within America’s borders."
Is banning TikTok really about a security risk? Or is it about silencing the voices of young people, who are the predominant users of the platform, and who happen to be overwhelmingly progressive?
Remember when a bunch of kids on TikTok reserved seats online for a Trump rally to prevent MAGAs from attending? Trump addressed a half empty hall in embarrassment! It was right after that when I first heard calls to ban TikTok.
The wording around the #TikTok ban makes it seem more like an economic pressure to nationalize TikTok than anything else.
Just a reminder, when other countries do this to USA-owned companies, USA foreign policy automatically sanction the shit out of that country. Or even funds a coup d’etat outright.
It happened in #Chile with the nationalization of copper mines, which led to decades of terror by US-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Trump hates #TikTok after a grandmother from Iowa organized teens & KPop fans on TikTok to claim free tickets for his June 2020 rally in Tulsa that was scheduled for #Juneteenth.
His 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, said they got over one million ticket requests for the free event, but the day of the event they didn't even fill the 20,000 seat area! Trump was humiliated & blamed TikTok.
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House passes TikTok crackdown that could ban app in U.S. (www.washingtonpost.com)
The swift rebuke shifts attention to the Senate, where the bill faces significant political barriers and constitutional concerns