Lawmakers unveil bipartisan bill that aims to ban TikTok in the U.S.

[drifter]

non has the reach isn't the same. tiktok is more of a public facing site/service than any of those. I don't need an account to view multiple tiktok videos or search hashtags. users also rave about it's recommendation algorithm.

Snap is a ghost town in comparison and users have been long fed up with IG and converting to TikTok. Numbers came out a month or two ago and there's something around ~150 million more hours of content watched on TikTok daily than on IG, that's with IG pushing video to copy TikTok with Reels. There's nothing close to TikTok.

I'd be shocked if anything on this passed, more money will just exchange hands like with everything else. But this making it this far is interesting.

 

[B86]

if it passes, users either accept it or they'll just use VPN's.

These people barely know how to Google an answer to a question; let alone have any idea what a VPN is. I’d say 1/50 would use a VPN in this situation

 

[Fillerguy]

the U.S. always ass backwards. Worried about Tik-Tok yet letting China scoop up land and real estate.

Because the right wing US government decided corporations are people, and are entitled to many of the rights of people. The Feds cannot prevent people from purchasing property, outside of eminent domain situations.

America

 

[AquaCityBoy]

We just want Healthcare.

 

[Savvir]

if it passes, users either accept it or they'll just use VPN's.

Appstore wouldn't host the app.

Android brehs can sideload the app. But millions of users ain't gonna go that far

 

[bnew]

These people barely know how to Google an answer to a question; let alone have any idea what a VPN is. I’d say 1/50 would use a VPN in this situation

if teens can learn how to boost a KIA from tiktok, they can learn how to use a VPN.

 

[bnew]

Appstore wouldn't host the app.

Android brehs can sideload the app. But millions of users ain't gonna go that far

plenty of apple users still jailbreak their iPhone although there use to be a lot more jailbreak users but after apple ripped off a lot of jail break features there wasn't as much need for it by some users.

 

[Savvir]

plenty of apple users still jailbreak their iPhone although there use to be a lot more jailbreak users but after apple ripped off a lot of jail break features there wasn't as much need for it by some users.

Millions of apple users ain't going through all the steps to jailbreak their phone brehs. Statistically irrelevant

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

The fact an app that takes sensitive US user data and sends it to servers in China was legal in the first place is mind-numbingly retarded...

It shows how retarded the US population and the zoomer generation is, you have to be a complete fukking idiot to install that app on a personal device...

 

[8WON6]

they should ban IG before TikTok.

 

[B86]

if teens can learn how to boost a KIA from tiktok, they can learn how to use a VPN.

“Can” is the keyword in your statement. And you gotta factor in that there are just as many adults on Tik Tok as there are teens

 

[Roland Coltrane]

imagine that, a country using social media to spy on citizens


*clutches pearls*


nobody else would do that right?


right?

 

[bnew]

https://archive.is/a5U6kP

https://archive.is/HkqWa

 

[Silky Johnson]

https://archive.is/a5U6kP

This is the whole ballgame. If we had strong privacy laws, the app wouldn't have been allowed here in the first place.

Politically, I don't think there will much fallout because those kids aren't voting anyway.

All it takes is for a few influencers to promote a clone and they will be back scrolling like they never left.

 

[humminbird]

https://archive.is/a5U6kP

https://archive.is/HkqWa

this is what no one wants to talk about
you want to start with tiktok you have to start with Facebook but oh well they gave up on that 5 years ago
all that's going on is making it possible to make sure only white men's apps can thrive