POV: It's January 19th

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They’re not hiding it. It’s not a “conspiracy” when it’s out the in the open.

Blinken blames social media for disrupting Israel’s narrative of war in Gaza

Secretary of state said social media allows history context to ‘get lost’

The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)

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I think it should be banned because of all the noisy cunts using it on public transport.

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It wasn't. There's zero proof of this currently.

The app is banned because congress can't control. They want you using the platforms where you can't become class or politically aware.

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How very "land of the free" of you

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Gross to see this kind of disinformation on Lemmy. Too bad freedom and open information lost in a major way. This will be a dark day in history. Nobody benefits except the genociders.

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The correct thing to do would be to

Yes the banning of TikTok is absolutely the wrong thing.

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You make a good point and then draw the wrong conclusion.

You hit the nail on the head with what they should be doing (broad industry regulations), but then you COMPLETELY missed the point you made. Congress is NOT banning TikTok because they collect too much data, they're banning it because it's TikTok and the "data" is just an excuse...otherwise they'd pass real data privacy laws.

Another platform will pop up over the next week if TikTok is banned. What they want is to sell TikTok to someone that will change the platform because it's too powerful. This isn't to push "government propaganda", but simply to change the algorithm to not be so good. They don't want you to gain class consciousness or have political discourse, they want you to be distracted with silly cat videos and memes...and maybe a side of culture war, but nothing else.

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You're right, Google controls what I see and pushes right wing propaganda to my phone. TikTok's algorithm actually works to serve me content based on my interests, and I have true political discussion and discourse there.

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Brother, that is still the laws on the books. Age does not matter. Do you really not understand that? Do you think laws expire? Did you choose to not understand? What's your deal? You live inside your own nightmare.

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Oh geez, well my condolences.

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Negligence (and even cruelty) is different from literal torture and (allegedly) extermination of an ethnic/religious group.

Also, gitmo holds hundreds of people, not hundreds of thousands.

Estebiu

Ah yes, freedoommm!!

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Another platform will pop up over the next week if TikTok is banned.

Or an existing social media will try to take its place; Meta and Google have sites which imitate TikTok's UI (at least, in part).

I don't think it's the only reason necessarily (and I'm inclined to agree your reasons are, at least, part of it) but I think the chance for U. S. companies to cannibalize TikTok's market demographics is, also, a happy little coincidence of the consequences.

Estebiu

I'm wrong or the whole thing of the USA is the "freedooom"?

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I might be killed, but seeing the comments i feel like lemmy is getting too into the zone of umm like judging the action based on the person instead of judging the action/statement itself, yeah the US gov is a piece of shit, and also they probably don't have the peoples best interest in mind, but the act of banning tiktok, according to me, is a right move, i can see nd myself have felt the humongous mental impact it has on teens (like me) basically killing their attention span, and making them feel like they need to pick up their phone, heck kids cant read 10pages from their physics book, infact reading a page only thoroughly is a tough task for most of them, and i m not talking abt a few select cases, i can see this in 95% of kids (this is anecdotal tho), ever since i stopped using reels/tiktoks/shorts, i can feel my mind improving

Also the whole slew of misinformation and propaganda tiktok is, is another issue

Again I agree with ppl that the US doesn’t hv the ppls best interest, but i do feel this might help atleast some ppl break their addiction, so many I know are aware they r addicted but can’t stop, banning the app altogether might help

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The thing with TikTok is almost all americans on it have gravitated away from other platforms because it has more to offer. I don't think there's a large demographic on TikTok who don't precisely understand why they use TikTok over other platforms. I also believe this is why they want to force TikTok to sell, they want to have it exist as a platform but with new management.

If TikTok doesn't sell and it does get banned, I almost guarantee the demographic will quickly find themselves on another, likely Chinese owned, platform. This will still be a win for Congress as they'll have fractured TikTok and weakened the demographic as a whole.

Time will tell.

Estebiu

I have a completely de-googled phone. No meta apps. No google apps. But I do have RedNote. Long live the CCP!

Estebiu

Ah, I also have the Huawei App Store and Huawei services for banking apps.

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so use a VPN?

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Companies would simply be punished by the law

can you show me any recent examples of this happening with any effectiveness?