Summary
TikTok faces a U.S. shutdown by Jan. 19 unless the Supreme Court delays or blocks a law requiring its Chinese parent, ByteDance, to divest.
The Biden administration defends the law as a national security measure, citing potential risks of Chinese government influence. Content creators argue it violates free speech.
Donald Trump, once a supporter of the ban, seeks a delay to reach a “political resolution.”
A shutdown could cost TikTok millions of users and revenue. The court’s decision, due soon, could reshape U.S. digital speech policy.
Oh man, threaten me with a good time.
Best possible outcome.
The best possible outcome would have been a digital bill of rights that applies to all social media. Please step outside the Amazon box youre thinking out of.
No no I said possible outcome.
Facebook first.
Don’t threaten us with a good time, TikTok!
Why is everything so glacially slow anymore. Fucking do something! I’ve been hearing about the demise of TiKTok for like three YEARS. Die already. Or don’t, I’m just sick of hearing about how it “might close” any fucking day now.
The 19th is the legal deadline.
Just remember this is was because of so much pro palestine posts on TikTok.
The push to close TikTok happened before the Palestinian genocide.
You’re absolutely right. But the palestine issue pushed it over the edge. I forgot who exactly from the israeli camp but they said “we lost a whole generation”
Nothing of value will be lost.
Idk, I think all these governments having trade and tech wars is bad for our freedom. But on the other hand, TikTok is pure misinformation slop.
TikTok makes Facebook look like haute culture and maybe people don’t need as much freedom as they think they do.
That’s not how freedom is defined in the constitution though. We are not in China or North Korea but are heading in that direction.
Really?
You think you have a constitutional right to use brainrot apps?
Actually yes, I dont know why you would think otherwise
What is it, the sixty-ninth amendment?
‘An unregulated internet, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear apps, shall not be infringed’?
This just in, nothing ever changes. Black people are still 3/5th of a person, women don’t have the right to vote, the vice president is 2nd place winner, and people don’t elect senators.
I don’t think the government has the right to control what you do in your private time on your private device.
1st amendment is right to free press and right to free speech. Several amendments imply a right to privacy from the government, such as the 3rd 4th and 9th.
The government should not regulate how I make my speech. That’s ridiculous to give them the right to remove how people are allowed to speak.
Good to know people are willing to give themselves more chains to a fascist Trump government if they don’t like the UI of an app.
There are already government regulations on what you can do on your ‘private’ device and what you can do on your private time.
Cool, so why stop there! Just make it so they always have access to my phone! Why would I need the right to use anything I want?
The government now needs needs me to get court approval to speak my mind to Trump. Require paperwork just to develop an app.
Surely nothing bad will happen if we just let this pot of water rise with frogs advocating it to get hotter.
I don’t think the government has the right to control what you do in your private time on your private device.
[Laughs in War in Drugs.]
All drugs should be legal.
maybe people don’t need as much freedom as they think they do.
The quiet part is a bit loud here my blue conservative friend.
You got that all from that comment?
Impressive, you should be a detective.
Is there anything stopping them from just renaming the company and rebranding it to avoid this? I could care less if it goes away or not, but I am curious how easily it could be to just rename yourself or if that’s actually covered somehow in this. Even still, I feel like there will definitely be loopholes that they can do to skate around it?
All they need to do is literally sell the American branch to a US company - even one they set up themselves.
The reason that they won’t do this is because a US founded company has to play by different rules than a Chinese company can.
DO IT!
Dunno why the last bit was removed. Ruins the wordplay that would apply perfectly here.
There we go.
Good.
Fit society or be ousted.
Excellent! Please do. You would be doing the world a favor.
so basically, if tiktok prevails, they were able to bribe uncle tom & co enough to outbid their competition. if not, the competition outbid tiktok.
It’s gonna happen on the 19th because otherwise TikTok could just pay Donald Trump to make it go away.
