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TikTik regulation bill’s future looking wobbly in Senate as calls—and threats—pour in: ‘OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you’ (fortune.com)

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The young voices in the messages left for North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis were laughing, but the words were ominous.

“OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you,” one said, giggling and talking over other young voices in the background. “I’ll shoot you and find you and cut you into pieces.” Another threatened to kill Tillis, and then take their own life.

Tillis’s office says it has received around 1,000 calls about TikTok since the House passed legislation this month that would ban the popular app if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake. TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers. “The government will take away the community that you and millions of other Americans love,” read one pop-up message from the company when users opened the app.

Cool zoomers to US congress and senate members : were-gonna-kill-you

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[-] Snackuleata@hexbear.net 123 points 9 months ago

TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers.

Lol the first time I contacted my representatives was because Failblog told me to in order to kill the Stop Online Piracy Act around 2009. Glad the tradition's being kept alive.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 86 points 9 months ago

TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers.

Isn't this exactly what brunch liberals want us to do? Contact our elected representatives and voice our opinions?

[-] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago

Well contacting elected people isn't necessarily Lib, especially if the contact comes along with a threat. I suppose the main issue is that communist orgs have no ability to grow a mass movement from any sort of extreme hatred towards our rulers.

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[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 107 points 9 months ago

The kids are alright

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 69 points 9 months ago

Gotta apply the school drills to real life situations, otherwise what’s the point of practicing?

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 98 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

that's amazing, senators are getting death threats over banning tiktok, i love it, dumbest future

edit: commas for fediverse

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 81 points 9 months ago

Honestly I'm just very happy they're getting thousands of death threats in close succession and I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth

[-] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 45 points 9 months ago

🎶 Celebrate good times, come on! 🎶

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 87 points 9 months ago

New TikTok trend of posting comedic death threats against senators

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 77 points 9 months ago

Assassinate Your Senator Challenge

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[-] FemboyStalin@hexbear.net 87 points 9 months ago

This is why a lot of pro trans stuff is getting shot down too. There was just a safe-haven bill that got killed in Maine due to death threats. The fact that they won't listen to anything but death threats is bleak af.

[-] Zymi@hexbear.net 90 points 9 months ago

I wonder if there is a lesson here...

For legal reasons this is a joke.

[-] operacion_ogro@hexbear.net 54 points 9 months ago

illegal-to-say

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Here in the UK politicians are very concerned with "online bullying" of politicians.

What they actually mean is the threats that they receive.

There is a very real attempt being made to increase powers against it which suggests to me that they find it an effective political tool and they don't like that.

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[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 85 points 9 months ago

I will finally download tiktok if it fills up with videos of kids doing the fortnite dance while yeeting their senator

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago

Recreating the final boss fight from Metal Gear Rising with Mitch McConnel playing Armstrong.

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[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 78 points 9 months ago

Xi is activating his strongest sleeper agents in the US right now

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 78 points 9 months ago

waow-based

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 74 points 9 months ago

TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers.

Egads! The horror of people being organised politically! How nefarious!

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago

"Participate is the process!"
"No. Not like that!"

[-] D61@hexbear.net 71 points 9 months ago

In Clown Country, is this is what it takes to get somebody "Shinzo Abe"d?

[-] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Someone's gonna get the doohickey

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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 67 points 9 months ago

“I mean, it’s almost embarrassing,” says Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., a former tech executive who is also supporting the TikTok bill and has long tried to push his colleagues to regulate the industry. “I would hate for us to maintain our perfect zero batting average on tech legislation.”

this shit would put you in the fucking negatives my guy

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 72 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

mystery-emote unadulterated xenophobia
is-this
'Is this privacy legislation?'

[-] someone@hexbear.net 47 points 9 months ago

“I mean, it’s almost embarrassing,” says Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va.

Huh, I wouldn't have expected him to be an Overwatch player.

[-] disposable_cracker@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago

Rare treat defender W.

[-] itsPina@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago

[-] pezhore@lemmy.ml 60 points 9 months ago

I'm in DC for a work thing and was shocked to see a TV ad extolling the virtues of TikTok. It basically followed the story of wounded purple heart Grandpa who needed a new scooter. The family tried everything but couldn't afford it and then... they took to tiktok. Holy shit! They were able to afford a scooter after donations rolled in! Isn't tiktok amazing?

It didn't specifically end with a call to congressman to stop the ban, but you could tell that's what they were going for.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago

Using their weepy "inspirational" misery porn and veteran-worship against them.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 35 points 9 months ago

YouTube has been running TikTock adds like crazy.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

If it passes the Senate, there's still a good chance it's DOA in the courts, just because it's so nakedly anti business

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 102 points 9 months ago

On the other hand it's also nakedly racist and sinophobic, so that might help push it thru the courts

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago

Recently, at least, courts have been more business friendly than racist when push comes to shove

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[-] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago

Is also blatantly anti-free speech. It’s massive government censorship, the equivalent of the cops storming into a newspaper’s offices and seizing the presses to stop publishing.

It’s wild.

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 9 months ago

I agree with you if the obvious law was followed

however there are still anti BDS laws (blatant first amendment violation) as well as the entirety of the NSA and patriot act (blatant 4th amendment violators)

the courts pick and choose and if something has a sliver of plausible pro-cop or pro-“national security” value (defined by the same agencies violating rights eg DHS, FBI, NSA…) it could very well be upheld by courts.

of course the idea that TikTok is a national security risk while facebook or twitter or the NSA somehow ARENT is based in racism, delusions and fairytales Americans keep telling. those are things hogs love…and judges are just overeducated hogs usually, so, my faith in them is nearly zero.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago

Oh yeah, but we never really gave a shit about any of that.

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[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 53 points 9 months ago

"If you want to make a difference, write and call up your congressperson. No, not like that!"

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[-] SkibidiToiletFanAcct@hexbear.net 53 points 9 months ago

Wobbly? sus anarxi

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 52 points 9 months ago

This is the Land of the Treats, of course threatening to take them away results in death threats lol. How are they surprised?

[-] Yor@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago

I hope the calls and threats to kill Thom Tillis never stop 🥹

[-] IMF_DOOM@hexbear.net 45 points 9 months ago

👏 MORE 👏 DEATH 👏 THREATS 👏 FOR 👏 POLITICIANS 👏

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago

Bullying Worke

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