• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    So when do they plan to do something about those domestic businesses trying to manipulate citizens of America?

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      9 months ago

      While you’re not wrong about double standards, anything that discourages the use of vapid social media platforms is a win in my book. Use whatever backwards logic you like to make it happen so long as it’s effective.

  • Nakedmole@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Tik Tok pushes so much toxic content towards children and teenagers it should be shut down in my opinion.

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    9 months ago

    U.S. lawmakers can’t force anything on foreign corporations.

    If the bill passes in the House and Senate and is signed into law by President Biden, TikTok would eventually be dropped from app stores in the US if its owner doesn’t sell. It also would lose access to US-based web-hosting services.

    ByteDance would be banned from the U.S. market and lose it’s webhosting on U.S. servers.

    Also, what’s with the “foreign adversary” status of China?

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Also, what’s with the “foreign adversary” status of China?

      China is attacking us by having a bigger economy

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        9 months ago

        Lol yea. They also maintain control over their big corpos and that must be threatening to the 9 corporations in a trench coat that the U.S. calls a government. Still, the world doesn’t need any more adversarial relationships, thank you very much U.S.A.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    High school nerds pay attention. This is how you can make some money and have an excuse to talk to the hot girls…by installing a vpn on their phones so they can still have their tik tok.

    Get one popular girls phone set up and every girl in the school will be hitting you up within a week.

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      9 months ago

      And why do you assume everyone including hot girls & popular girls aren’t already capable of installing their own VPNs? Unless of course you mean the high school nerd is going to pay for our VPN service, then come on over!

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    9 months ago

    The world is on fire but the kids are upset that they have to use another platform for their stupid fucking dance videos.

    BTW: someone in the US should just make a similar app and call it tiktok. It’s not like China gives a crap about IP protection so turn about is fair play.