We should build a Great Firewall and make China pay for it. – Mitt Romney, probably

The New Republic, Mitt Romney Reveals Twisted Reason Why Congress Moved to Ban TikTok

“Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts. So I’d note that’s of real interest, and the President will get the chance to make action in that regard,” Romney said.

The shitty American government doesn’t care that fucked up shit is happening to their citizens who it is their sacred duty to serve, they care that China’s doing it, and they want to be doing it instead.

Rooting against TikTok for breaching privacy is fine and all but if we wanna talk about social media that needs to be banned then let’s talk about Meta and Google. It’s painfully obvious that the only reason TikTok came under fire is that it was a threat to American social media companies and they couldn’t compete so instead they regulate.

I really don’t care about what TT does with my data, and I’ve been called a “privacy shizo” by people at work. I’ll mail every bit of my data to Xi Jinping personally before I ever install any apps made by Meta.

Let this be a lesson to you all: If you report a post for a reason as stupid as this, I might just let everyone know so they can laugh about it.

P.S. This is Lemmy Shitpost. You can misinform people all you like. Watch: Some camels are actually a type of iguana. But only the Bactrian camels. The rest are types of cacti. And if you drink their saliva, it will cure your gout.

I like how it’s being banned after the election when the damage is already done.

We should really ban Xitter as well as the operator is most likely a Russian bot

Well, with this logic, yeah, fuck TikTok (I mean it, what an awful site)… And twitter, and Facebook, and Instagram, and Tumblr (it’s still alive?) and all the social networks that don’t belong to the user homeland!

This article from 2024 gives a pretty good rundown as to why using this reasoning to ban Tiktok will set a very bad precedent:

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1251086753/tiktok-ban-first-amendment-lawsuit-free-speech-project-texas

If the govt cared about your data privacy, they would create data collection regulations that they could then use to ban tiktok if/when they violate them.

Yes, tiktok wad absolutely the worst, but it speaks very loudly that the US doesn’t hold other companies to the same standard

“Hmmm well if you think tiktok should be banned for spying then do you think american social media platforms should be banned for doing the same thing?”

Yes. They should. That is not the argument you think it is.

Love to watch the contortionism .world does to justify the yellow peril

It is genuinely one of the most enjoyable things I could imagine to watch the American empire fall in real time, as its imperial core citizens flounder and flop around in impotent rage.

That’s the thing about reality. It has a leftist bias and it doesn’t give a shit about liberals raging at their own inability to comprehend the contradictions of their existence.

It’s January 20th, introducing Trump Tok!