TikTok ban?

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That CCP propaganda tool should be banned .

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It's amazing that a forum that skews towards young people is so supportive of a TikTok ban. Just remember, that by supporting the TikTok ban you

1. Don't believe in the First Amendment and freedom of speech. "The CCP" you like to demonize is responsible for exactly none of the viral content on TikTok, your fellow citizens are
2. Are carrying water for Mark Zuckerberg, who is one of the hidden hands behind this legislation as the main beneficiary.
3. Are carrying water for the FBI and NSA to gain additional surveillance capabilities and authority. I've never heard of anyone going to jail over VPN use in China and Mark Warner wants to hand out 20 year prison sentences for that.

Looks like blind anti-China hate and jingoism has corrupted your minds. Maybe one day you'll wake up and realize that and regret that you supported policies that are in total opposition to your ideals.

Edit: No, Bytedance will not divest from TikTok. We won't let it happen. You won't pry TikTok out of our cold dead hands, you'll have to ban it and suffer the consequences.

If Tik Tok can be banned, then Faux News owned by Australian Rupert Murdereroch can be banned as well.

Murdoch is an American citizen

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It's amazing that a forum that skews towards young people is so supportive of a TikTok ban. Just remember, that by supporting the TikTok ban you

1. Don't believe in the First Amendment and freedom of speech. "The CCP" you like to demonize is responsible for exactly none of the viral content on TikTok, your fellow citizens are
2. Are carrying water for Mark Zuckerberg, who is one of the hidden hands behind this legislation as the main beneficiary.
3. Are carrying water for the FBI and NSA to gain additional surveillance capabilities and authority. I've never heard of anyone going to jail over VPN use in China and Mark Warner wants to hand out 20 year prison sentences for that.

Looks like blind anti-China hate and jingoism has corrupted your minds. Maybe one day you'll wake up and realize that and regret that you supported policies that are in total opposition to your ideals.

Edit: No, Bytedance will not divest from TikTok. We won't let it happen. You won't pry TikTok out of our cold dead hands, you'll have to ban it and suffer the consequences.

1. The CCP bans our tech companies so it’s only fair we ban theirs

2. Mark Zuckerburg is an American citizen and thus is protected by the constitution. Before you try to do whataboutism here , yes any foreign company regardless of what country it is from is not protected by our constitution so thus it can be banned . That’s just a simple protectionist measure

3. That’s not the bill that advanced

4. You are carrying water for a communist regime

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https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1766258633430425692?t=3OaKdnraV47urFWERE2cB...

Has anyone else noticed a softening of the GOP's China rhetoric lately, not just on tiktok but as a whole? Their hardcore anti China stance is one of the few things they were better than Dems on, and they're blowing it.

Even free Republic is now turning against banning TikTok which is weird:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4223110/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4223025/posts

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Y’all realize this doesn’t “ban” tik tok but would force it to be sold to an American company

It is concerning how crassly protectionist the US has become in the name of “security.”  This applies to many issues (notably immigration), not just social media companies or trade.

Protectionism in the context of defending our national security interests is 100% justified.

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Every social media platform can be and has been used for information warfare.

But TikTok is disproportionately the annoying Zoomer app, and the US government as of January 20th, 2017, has decided that we must have a new Cold War, so…

the CCP started the new cold war, the US just has decided to fight back which is good.

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Given China bans our tech companies , why should any tech company of theirs be allowed in our country . There is absolutely nothing wrong with engaging in Tit for Tat practices

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Yes China bans American websites because they are a communist country, but we are not. I'm tired of our government pretending like it's morally superior to the CCP and then follows similar tactics against freedom.

Theoretically we should severely restrict other Chinese tech companies too if not ban them . Tit for Tat is perfectly fine when it comes to trade policy