Idk man, we've got people dying from gun violence and police brutality everywhere you look but the government wants to cry about tiktok ? Ok

But when Putin, Erdogan, the Taliban and everyone in between do the same, they're anti-democratic and tyrants.
Which they are.
State-owned devices with sensitive information are a whole different world than regular citizens' phones. It's not like people do not already post every detail about their lives on social media. If China wants information, it's all out there already 😂

Yes , better regulations for handling of data and the usage of it , even taxation on companies that profit off of user data could be implemented and used to fund public services , that could both reduce the amount of data that is accessed but also give back to the people who help companies profit off of their personal/sensitive information

I’d rather see Fox, Truth social and Twitter banned. The GOP is more dangerous than Tic Toc.

I tend to think that hostile foreign proto-fascist states shouldn't be allowed to control our media. God knows some other tech company at least an inch outside of China will realize how much money they can make by creating a new one, so we won't really have lost anything.

That said, FaceBook is probably a bigger national security threat for other reasons lol. I'm not really the type to say that you can't do one good thing without doing another good thing, but banning the dangerous social media platform that young people use while keeping the dangerous social media platform that old people use might screw up the balance of power, you know? So I guess I'm split.

No. And I’m really surprised that the people who support actual hate speech or the dissemination of misinformation about deadly diseases (in the name of the first Amendment) would be trying to ban any social media platform. 🤨

Who cares
Aren't we free to choose for ourselves

I never understood the height for TikTok.

Hell No I love Tik Tok its fun if they want to ban Tik Tok because of it being a chinese spy app than they need to ban other sites & site apps that are spied by the government

This just shows how woeful the understanding of the internet is in the senate. VPN’s and preloaded routers for instance. They are either very poorly briefed or have a wider censorship agenda and this is the excuse.

Yes, it is putting too much pressure on Google and Facebook's advertising by being more popular and taking their ad revenue so Government should restrict their market capability in the US.

Of course, that would be socialism, Government intervention in the free Capitalist market.

Oops I should have said it is Chinese Government controlled and aimed to help them takeover the world, and that is bad, just like when the US tried to do it in the 20 th Century and the UK before that.

Yes, yet not for just for such obvious reasons. No country should have outside influences on USA platforms or USA corporations. This tendency for multinational corporations is bad. Not just with China. No single multinational corporation should be able to influence multiple number of countries.

No but they should make privacy measures that limit the app from spying on personal content on people's phones.. phones are basically invasive spyware on everyone.. computers apps and phones and all types of electronics.. 😒

I don't like limiting media. Our media is censored enough already and has slanted bias

Maybe stricter settings for the underage.

This is another piece of Republican uselessness. First of all the American Constitution......unlike the Republican Constitution that only has the 2nd Amendment....guarantees freedom of speech under the 1st Amendment. Further there are net neutrality laws....and free enterprise laws that guarantees that TicToc cant be railroaded out of America on Sedition Josh's say so. This is just another Republican sideshow to take eyes off of the fact that governing is not the job Republicans do. The GOP is masters at investigations into nothing, blocking and obstructing. IF.....IF.... this somehow passes the House its dead... and IF.....iF it does pass everyone somehow...the Supreme Court will call it unconstitutional.

How is it that the Party who "Stands behind our Freedom of Speech" seems to want to abrogate it at every turn when it suits their agenda? Sure, ban it from Government owned devices but as far as private individuals, let them do whatever they want as long as it's nothing illegal...

Government phones should only have approved apps.

Also if you're in a position of power , you have to follow that with your personal devices as well.

Just to avoid any sources of possible blackmail.

yes it should. it is an arm of the CCP and a means to gather intelligence. as for the rest of the platforms, they need reform too.

The problem with banning tiktok is it makes money and politicians don't like banning money

If it gets banned your TikTok scheming can live on through me @deadgerbil

I don't use it, so I don't really care one way or the other. I have a feeling that it won't be banned, however.

And then ban Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, And My space..And anythine else that qualifies as social media and can be viewed on a phone.. I want an app free worl so that people dont keep walking unter the wheels of my supermarket trolley..😷

Why should TikTok be banned, what’s wrong with it?

It seems pretty pointless. A lot of the content is fun, a lot is informative, and a lot is abhorrent. It could be banned, but the content would simply migrate to another platform...

One more thing for the Republicans to take away from us.........as they whine about how those darned Dems just keep stealing our rights.

@JohnOinger

No.. I don't think tiktok should be banned. Although I hate cringy tiktok videos but tiktok can be used to spread awareness too. .

I still don't understand why Vine went away.

Idk, tiktok is tiktok but the desire for views is terrible. You got nudity, politics, werdios, finance advisors, transgender awareness, women awareness, men awareness, stupid prime drink vids, it pretty much like the Walmart of social media

side note.
i thought it was exeptionally funny when adam shit went onto tiltok to complain about national security..

what a dumbass...

Who gives a sht? We care about TikTok? Really...That's what the Congress is up in arms about...

The
world is
NUTS!

Addendum: I don't use it. It's anxiety and stress inducing and I like things to be like a brook nice and easy and beautiful and slower ....

Life is too fast, this site supports the hyper speed and that's not cool.

Ooof I read tiktok, but my brain said twitter

Get rid of them both🤣