Congress considering forcing a sale of TikTok, because it has propaganda influence on the American public. TikTok resists by... using its propaganda influence to activate the public on its behalf. This... seems to prove the point. TikTok is showing we have good reason to be worried!
Olivia Beavers
 @Olivia_Beavers
Mar 7
One House GOP staffer tells me: “it’s so so bad. Our phones have not stopped ringing. They’re teenagers and old people saying they spend their whole day on the app and we cant take it away”

Mar 7, 2024 · 6:42 PM UTC

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And this one hot off presses from @antgoldbloom in @TIME "TikTok Needs to be Sold or Banned Before the 2024 Election" time.com/6836078/tiktok-sold…

TikTok Needs to be Sold or Banned Before the 2024 Election

The TikTok is highly influential with young Americans and is shaping political opinion.

time.com
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Replying to @roybahat @wolfejosh
The US Congress is trying to force a foreign company to sell a foreign asset, and you think it's the company that's in the wrong. Right. Reverse the roles. China or Russia or France saying that $META has to sell WhatsApp or Instagram. How stupid would that be?
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I assume you know these American-owned apps are banned in China. So they've gone FURTHER.
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How do we think about Uber doing this in the past, as part of a larger theme of them ignoring regulation and bending incentives in their favor?
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Very different to have a US-owned company influencing US policy than a CCP-controlled company influencing US policy. Only one is a national security threat. (The other one has lots of other threats!) Though, yes, it's the same technique.
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How dare a service communicate with its users about threats to the service they use!
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Except the bill forces a sale, no threat to the service. Only to its current owner.
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Every other company with a product that provides value to so many consumers would do the same. It proves nothing related to propaganda.
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Replying to @roybahat @Noahpinion
Not really what they said. They, like X just don't remove anything not illegal and that's stopping gov blocking content against them. Aka helps Tic Toc by default. Not being curated as Facebook and others who fold. X & tt just take down actually illegal content,not just for politically governed reasons. This one s and should not be illegal. AFAIK by other sources I've seen.
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