I’m not a ban fan but social media like that is psychological cancer that is definitely harming the young and old mentally.
Kids growing up these days have the burden of the disgusting need for social media self-promotion. They are conditioned that attention and Likes are the most valuable social currency, and waste so much of their valuable youth pursuing that hollow bullshit.
I’m keeping my kids off social media for as long as I can so they can experience growing up without Cloud-automated peer pressure.
Look what it did to boomers. Legit. Ban all that shit. Geocities for the win.
Lead exposure was probably a big part of that as well to be fair.
This will do nothing about that. If TikTok is banned, kids will just move to something else. You would have to ban all social media. Good luck with that.
You can’t ban peer pressure. That’s like trying to stop the flow of water.
Surely engineers have devised ways to reduce pier pressure caused by the flow of water.
How about a digital bill of rights instead of playing ineffective whackamole?
Because the US can control the topics shared in the other platforms, but since tiktok is owned by a chinese parent company, they can’t
Also, tiktok was originally told they had to sell to a us based owner to avoid the ban (see hostile takeover)
This ban has nothing to do with privacy and Chinese manipulation, and everything about control and profits.
Hell, Besos and The Zuckster are the two main forces pushing for this ban.
Corporate lobbying doesn’t want digital rights for people, more work for them.
While also expanding their own surveillance capabilities, right?
Yeah, tiktok is a Chinese data mine so… they don’t want it to go away, they vwanna control it.
Cool, do Twitter next. Wait, ban Elon…into the sun.
Twitter gives US agencies data, they are cool bro
Please help a fellow non-US citizen understand. How can this be a bipartisan agreement and, what’s its difference to the “video games cause violence” bit? I dislike TikTok as well (and I will never use it) but I think banning it nationwide is taking it too far.
Well the video games thing was people thinking games caused violence. This is people thinking the CCP has access to TikTok’s data. The problem is all of our social media apps, and cars, and smart devices are selling data to China. So we aren’t plugging a hole. We’re just forcing a “fire sale” where a rich American can buy TikTok for cheap.
This isn’t a consumer protection thing; it’s a national security thing.
Unfortunately, they’re not banning all social media because they’re vectors for destroying privacy and manipulating consumers; they’re banning only the Chinese one because it’s a vector for Chinese spying and propaganda. They want only American-owned companies to be in a position to manipulate Americans, and they want that manipulation to continue.
The issue is not with the applications psychological effects on children (although i’m sure politicians bring that point up in passing to bolster their argument). The basis for the removal of the application is that it is spyware with rootkit capabilities.
Oh thank God. Tik tok was a mistake. Please for the love of god go after facebook next. Kill the misinformation peddlers one by fucking one
What else is in this bill? This will probably make VPNs very popular.
I found this an interesting perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEDGZlG_41k
- People: Why doesn’t the government ever pass a law that protects its citizens.
– Government: Here’s a law to protect our citizens from a foreign government spying on them.
– Gen Z: Noooooooooooooo!!!
