nice contrast with expanding surveillance like two days before. being another country without your own social media is basically saying "i like that usa spies on me, they should do more of it"
Good. I don't want CHINA spying on me, I want an honest god fearing american company spying on me instead.
I remember making this joke and we got some lemmy dipshit in here all like 'yes I don't want foreign countries spying on me'
Like what is China gonna do if they learn about whatever weird/illegal things you do?
Versus the country you actually live in learning about the weird/illegal things you do?
Literally seen a lot of takes of "I'd rather America decode the algorithm than China use it for propoganda"
puts on They Live glasses
"I'd rather be lied to by america than hear the truth from a foreign goverent"
Xi seeing my feet pics 
Biden seeing my feet pics and sending the cops to kill me 
He sends them to Kamala and she laughs at them 
Xi is going to blackmail me with pictures of my tiny dick I sent to women unsolicited, HE HAS DIRT ON ME
Tik Tok should just refuse to sell and make their landing page a full screen banner saying "this is the top priority of American politicians right now, when was the last time you had to choose between paying rent and buying groceries, election day is November 5th."
Scrap the election day part and replace it with the full text of State And Revolution
Yea he is losing the election for sure
At this point, I feel like that's just part of the game for politicians. Like how much can they get away with before facing consequences.
Oh, also, Fucking Biden is a sacrificial lamb for all his fucking handlers. They're not gonna face any consequences long term for him losing, they'll just move on to a new job with all these horrible policies on their CV. That's another way him and Trump aren't so different, it's just a difference in the ideology of monsters they're more likely to acquiesce towards.
He saw his polling kinda go up and decided to see what happens.
Joe Biden, not really wanting to win re-election but also wanting to be able to blame 'naive young people' for his failure:
The 2028 election will be decided based on who's going to be more aggressive in making it illegal to be younger than 40.
They're out of their minds.
The political cost of banning tiktok is so fucking high. The US relies on its "FREEEEEE SPEEEEECH" propaganda so much but every single member of genz is going to consider that complete and total bullshit if they lose access to the app in a move that has obviously been motivated by Palestine.
We will be laughing about this blunder in years to come as a very significant mistake. The political cost of undermining one of the most important cornerstones of american propaganda is much higher than allowing tiktok to exist. They're treating this the same as the UK banning CGTN or RT but those were easy to do because only a few thousand people watched them to begin with, they had no political cost. The cost of this is one of the flagstones of the american lie with an entire generation.
so unless tiktok is sold to a US-based company, it will be a bit inconvenient for US users to download the app and keep it updated
is that all? can't these geriatric corporate-owned fucking ghouls understand how toothless this supposed ban is? lmao this is pathetic
Just wait for all the bait apps and fake blogs with tiktok APK download links. Who knows, maybe it'll filter out all the tech illiterate reactionaries. en On android it'll be easier to keep your access. On iOS it'll be almost impossible since sideloading apps is pretty hard if I recall. Tiktok should just put the most recent android apk right on their website.
Sideloading is a pain, but I've got this crazy cracked youtube app I use that's so much better than the standard one.
This bill's original sponsors are Facebook. And however slight the inconvenience is, users can be very fickle. Even if most users stay with the platform via VPNs it can still hurt the bottom line. This means a victory for Facebook no matter what.
As for Israel, Tiktok is hardly the only place the israelis behave like demons.
If you deleted the edge shortcut from these ghouls desktop they wouldn't be able to access the internet. They think the way you take a screenshot is by finding your intern and telling them to do it. They 100% think this will stop anybody from using tik tok.
Actually it likely won't even do that. On Android, it's quite easy to have your app check a server for updates on startup and download an updated APK which the user can then install with one tap. It can require the user to grant the app permission to install updates, but you can easily just tell users how to do this, send them to the right setting, and even make the button they need to press flash so they know what to hit.
You can also make a large number of changes server side so that users don't even have to update the actual app very often.
This would be a lot more of a punishment if it was still 2011, but all this will really do is make it harder for new users to install the app on iOS, where sideloading isn't a thing in the US.
TikTok has said it will fight it in courts. So let's see what happens. I don't expect them to sell, even if they lose. And if they end up getting banned in the US, I wonder what other Western countries do.
Wouldn't surprise me if the anglofascists(ie. Canada, UK and etc) follow the US for banning like they do with almost everything.
The UK will do it in a heartbeat if the Americans order it. It wasn't that long ago we were trying to ban fucking encryption until the government had months and months of beingntold by literally everyone that it was impossible and that if they found a way it would completely collapse every institution, the banks, and the economy at large.
Gotta love a system that allows decrepit boomers who have no idea how the modern world works to run everything
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act
PAfACAA
Terrible acronym, it's like they weren't even trying.
Please just pull the app in the US, kids will start widely using VPNs just to use tiktok, it will be good for society.
I love this protest sign:
As if the US Government gives a shit about Americans' quality of life.
So wait is biden just making the cool sms app into an even cooler one by banning it?
It kinda just seems like itll teach kids how to skirt the ban, make it more popular with ppl who want to use it and also keep libs and conservatives off it... seems like a win
healthcare pls 
I'm glad we've solved all of society's major problems so that our politicians can spend their time legislating such trivial matters.
damn i was wrong on this one. never thought they would sign it. lmao
I will never be convinced democrats actually want to win. No fucking way haha. Be sure to blame this on the leftists too!
well, this is what it took for me to finally install TikTok on my phone
Honestly after years of scoffing at Tik Tok I've kinda become addicted to it the last few weeks, there's just SO MANY anti-cop Tik Toks
yeah what we discovered from all the probes into tiktok was that tiktok wasnt promoting palestinian content it was legitimately that organically popular and that they had to go out of their way to promote israeli content otherwise it would naturally be drowned out completely
and also there is a pretty big contingent of anarchist and marxist tiktokers and they are pretty popular that they start popping up on the average persons fyp and tiktok doesnt suppress them like other platforms
also we get cool news that literally does not get reported at all. like did you know last week a retired general in the us navy was gunned down by seattle police for trying to convince a single mother to watch him SA her 2 preteen girls? been a week. google it. only results you get is a journalist and photographer who is talking about it on tiktok because he was there after the fact and took the photos and has been following up on it. wonder why his name is never mentioned hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
oh looks like today they finally updated some of the articles with his name. unfun fact, the guy oversaw the medical at guantanamo bay rest in piss fuckwad
This cold war is making me depressed, everything the USA does is in pursuit of war 
it means he will lose literally any and every 18-25 vote he might've gotten lmao BRANDON WHY
He's getting 
'd by zoomers I'm calling it
If the ban depends on app stores, couldn't you just download the apk? Wait does TikTok have an apk you can download?
I guess we’re just gonna have to TikTokTake ourselves to the polls.
Vote harder than ever!
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