Biden signs bill that could ban tiktok within a year

[Burned Verses]

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1246663779/biden-ban-tiktok-us

President Biden on Wednesday signed a law that would ban Chinese-owned TikTok unless it is sold within a year.

It is the most serious threat yet to the video-streaming app's future in the U.S., intensifying America's tech war with China.

Still, the law is not expected to cause any immediate disruption to TikTok, as a forthcoming legal challenge, and various hurdles to selling the app, will most likely cause months of delay.

The measure was tucked into a bill providing foreign aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. The law stipulates that ByteDance must sell its stake in TikTok in 12 months under the threat of being shut down.

 

[JadeB]

I just downloaded Tik Tok admittedly solely because of this bill. I'm not surprised if there was a surge of downloads in the past couple of months. Either way, there's more issues to pass bills for

 

[NinoBrown]

Good, it's created a nation of brain dead idiots...

 

[Paper Boi]

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

fukk em

 

[Sly Cookin]

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok. He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it to help his friends over at Facebook become richer and more dominant, and able to continue to fight, perhaps illegally, the Republican Party...

truthsocial.com

Trump already using this against Biden.

You really wanna make 170 million Americans mad before the election?

 

[UpNext]

Joe Biden really one of the WOATs at this President shyt

 

[jilla82]

Good, it's created a nation of brain dead idiots...

the Coli been around since the 90s breh

 

[Paper Boi]

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok. He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it to help his friends over at Facebook become richer and more dominant, and able to continue to fight, perhaps illegally, the Republican Party...

truthsocial.com

Trump already using this against Biden.

You really wanna make 170 million Americans mad before the election?

if this causes you not to vote joe biden then your stupid ass deserves donald trump

 

[Mike809]

China has banned most, if not all major American apps such as Facebook.

I'm sure an American alternative will replace tik-tok if it's not sold.

 

[RamsayBolton]

if this causes you not to vote joe biden then your stupid ass deserves donald trump

Its teenagers that Trump is trying to appeal to in that post. Teenagers are not famous for their insight and long-term thinking.

China has banned most, if not all major American apps such as Facebook.

So what? We taking cues from authoritarian governments now?

 

[Chronic]

Yet, his campaign team still uses Tiktok for outreach to young voters. If I'm Bytedance I'll order Tiktok to reduce engagement to all accounts belonging to Biden's team and Democrats and put videos encouraging young people not to vote to everyone's timeline as a fukk you to Biden.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Biden doing everything he can to lose in November

 

[OneDeep]

Only 13-17 years olds care about this

 

[Mike809]

Its teenagers that Trump is trying to appeal to in that post. Teenagers are not famous for their insight and long-term thinking.




So what? We taking cues from authoritarian governments now?

Why does China not allow American Social Media in China ? They obviously see foreign apps as a domestic harm , You don't think it goes the other way too?

The ban is also because of the influence the Chinese Communist Party has over all companies in China. If they wanted TikTok algorithms to push videos that discredit the US government or Promote Trump/Biden, then Bytedance would have to comply. With the popularity of the app here in the US, especially with the impressionable youth, there is a fear that they could be being influenced by a hostile foreign power.