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TikTok Closer to Potential U.S. Ban as House Passes Bill Requiring Sale
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First Amendment does not apply to foreign companies, so it doesn’t matter what TikTok is. The Supreme Court ruled that foreign companies and foreign subsidiaries of American companies are not protected by the First Amendment, which is why I said there is no First Amendment issue.
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I'm not advocating for porn and am aware that questionable porn exists. Do those types of websites encourage impressionable young people to eat laundry detergent and marinate chicken breast in cold medicine?
There is a strong governmental interest in protecting children, which Congress has attempted with laws relating to pornography. It is far beyond time to strengthen internet regulations relating to social media and children. Contrary to what many people on this forum seem to believe, not every expression - be it spoken word or otherwise - is protected by the first amendment.
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Apple and other companies hosting the app are not a foreign companies, you obviously don't understand
Great it's just a fear mongering...
TikTok Has Pushed Chinese Propaganda Ads To Millions Across Europe
According to TikTok's newly public advertising library, ads from China’s largest state media outlets touting everything from China Covid lockdowns to tourism in the troubled Xinjiang region have been broadcast to millions of the platform's European users.
www.forbes.com
TikTok is a foreign company, so they have no First Amendment rights. Period. Please get educated in what the Supreme Court said. There was a decision in 2020 where the Court deemed that foreign companies and foreign subsidiaries of American companies do not enjoy Constitutional rights, including the First Amendment. Fining a company for hosting a banned app is not an infringement of Apple’s rights since Apple has no ownership interest in that app. The Court has already spoken, so this law is Constitutional no matter what you might think. This is not my opinion. If you want to argue, go argue with Justice Kavanaugh who wrote the opinion.
How will the Tik Tok ban be enforced? Can a website really be banned if people have access to the internet? All you need is a free VPN or other means to sidestep the ban! And what will the EU have to say about this since they are forcing Progressive Web Apps? 😁
But what if the EU bans the US Tik Tok ban? What is Apple supposed to do then? Also people will just skirt the laws and find a way to access Tik Tok with a VPN or something like that! I see a slippery slope in every direction!
TikTok will ultimately be banned regardless of who is in office.
What are you talking about lmao.
The majority of tik tok is stupid dance trends and voiceovers.
Again don’t blame social media. Blame parents for not being aware or responsible for their kids.
Interestingly enough in China TikTok has more educative and informative take... far from the cesspool offered to the rest of the world...
The fact that you have to ask is the problem.
Most parents are as conceptually weak as their kids.
Yeah, it always kinda bothers me when mainly a bunch of older dudes/dudettes who aren't tech savvy and also probably didn't even know what a TikToc was before 2 days ago will be voting on banning it from the rest of us.
It doesn't particularly matter to me. I've never used it. But there a bunch of people who do. If it does get banned (i.e. they don't transfer ownership to a non China entity), I imagine there will be a lot of angry former TikTokers out there.
Perhaps it will finally get them to the polls and actually vote. We'll see.
It doesn't particularly matter to me. I've never used it. But there a bunch of people who do. If it does get banned (i.e. they don't transfer ownership to a non China entity), I imagine there will be a lot of angry former TikTokers out there.
Perhaps it will finally get them to the polls and actually vote. We'll see.
Forbes is American propaganda, owned by a prominent conservative multimillionaire.Great it's just a fear mongering...
TikTok Has Pushed Chinese Propaganda Ads To Millions Across Europe
According to TikTok's newly public advertising library, ads from China’s largest state media outlets touting everything from China Covid lockdowns to tourism in the troubled Xinjiang region have been broadcast to millions of the platform's European users.
The thumbnail on that video told me it was probably garbage and going through that channel’s selections of videos, including such gems as “The Marvels is the worst movie ever made”, I am going to ask for more credible sources.
Are you suggesting we should just arrest people because we think they might become burglars one day?
I'm sure US tech companies have been lobbying hard for the ban as TikTok is stealing all the momentum (read: ad revenue) in the social media space, especially with the all important 13-20 somethings.
It was the same nonsense with the ban on Chinese hardware and what not. I wish people could really see what is happening here.
Let’s all take a moment and consider that Facebook facilitated and aided genocide in Myanmar without so much as a peep from the US government: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/n...st-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/
I mean, disliking TikTok does not mean we love Meta.
I think Zuck's Meta is not the most favorite corporate either. We all know Meta is harvesting user data too.
If you have kept up on the CCP since Winnie The Poo took over is the CCP consider you Chinese 1st and whatever your national orientation 2nd. Tik Tok is used by the CCP to keep track of peoples locations. This is especially true for Chinese Americans with family still in China. The Chinese security police use these relatives to blackmail Chinese family members living abroad. The will get Tik Tok posts from close family members with a CCP security cop standing in the background. They will already know you might be working for a business the Chinese want to steal technology from. So you have a choice spy for the Chinese or see your family in China disappear. This alone is enough of a reason the ban Tik-Tok. There are so many alternatives to it. As I said above there are a number of people in the US that are inline to take over Tik-Tok and remove its servers from China, putting them under the control of US privacy laws.
This from Google.
More than a dozen countries have banned TikTok, including Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Taiwan, the UK, and the European Union. Some countries have full bans, while others have partial bans. For example, Australia bans TikTok on devices issued by some government agencies, while Belgium bans it on federal government devices.
The US military services have banned Tik-Tok and Bytedance use by service members. They cannot ban family members from using it however. This is a real security threat because service members can be tracked by Tik-Tok family members. That is not to say you are tracked anyway by metadata spiders, But you can use tracking blockers, and VPN's but as long as Tik-Toks servers are located in China tracking blockers will not work.
More than a dozen countries have banned TikTok, including Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Taiwan, the UK, and the European Union. Some countries have full bans, while others have partial bans. For example, Australia bans TikTok on devices issued by some government agencies, while Belgium bans it on federal government devices.
The US military services have banned Tik-Tok and Bytedance use by service members. They cannot ban family members from using it however. This is a real security threat because service members can be tracked by Tik-Tok family members. That is not to say you are tracked anyway by metadata spiders, But you can use tracking blockers, and VPN's but as long as Tik-Toks servers are located in China tracking blockers will not work.
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I'm not saying anyone here is defending Meta, I'm just pointing out that Facebook has done demonstrable harm on a systemic level without consequence, which makes the government's hysteria over TikTok feel even more like xenophobic saber rattling. US tech companies get away with virtually anything they want.I mean, disliking TikTok does not mean we love Meta.
I think Zuck's Meta is not the most favorite corporate either. We all know Meta is harvesting user data too.