Should tik-tok be banned?

Vanster said:
When someone shows me (and I would not put it past the CCP to try), that China is actively manipulating Tik Tok content and we just can't figure out that they are doing it, I'm going to dismiss all this with my one uncle that insists that fluoridated water is the basis for mind control.
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:rofl:

Yeah, China isn't doing anything and they definitely aren't viewing or using data collected from a company that is absolutely required to do so as the drop of a hat.

How old are you to be at this stage of dementia already?
 
samUwell said:
Mericans must change their line of thinking and remember than when the US Federal, State, or local govt wants to do something to 'protect' you, you will be giving up a portion of what is left of our 'rights'.
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I don't consider this part of that. It would just get sold or a non-communist app would take its place.
 
Where is Validerp from? Obviously America, but where specifically that made him this mad and brainwashed? Texas?
 
Vanster said:
So your fear is that because Tik Tok is owned by a Chinese company, that the CCP is going to make them write code into the platform that can be used for all sorts of nefarious things.
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That is 100% already happening. No company there is private. It's codified with the commies. And considering Chinese kids aren't even using the same app, would be enough evidence all by itself that they are being nefarious already, let alone common sense or observable reality.

There is a chance of that, I suppose, but couldn't we come to some kind of agreement where we have our own people looking at the software to make sure that doesn't happen? I dunno.
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Jesus tap-dancing Christ. It wouldn't be happening on the app itself, grandpa. It would be happening on their backend which no one has any visibility in.
 
Nmag said:
Ban


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Massive dual cab 'trucks'
Pulp free orange juice
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I wish I had the photograph, but your imagination will have to do. My Dad's friend does this thing where he brings in dudes (in the west, the definition of dude is a person that is unfamiliar with horses), and these guys come in from Delaware or wherever and pay money to ride horses, and help push cows, blah blah blah.


So we come out of the mountains, and these 2 guys were scared, and that's okay, the terrain is like straight up and straight down, and both of them were just "fuck this, I'm clutching the saddle horn," so I'm on my horse, and leading both these guys down (no shame in that, it's not for the meek) and they are dressed to the nines, with cowboy hats, snap-down cowboy shirts, the whole costume. . and my gf at the time took a picture of me leading them in, me being all long hair native, wearing grammichis and a Metallica T-shirt..
 
The the bad people of the uniParty want to ban tiktok
Nancy, Crenshaw... Dimos&RINOs...
After embracing tictok for years.. all of a sudden they're 'scared'
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While the GOP Focuses on TikTok, Google Prepares to Devour Everyone Whole - Revolver News

Banning TikTok was supposed to be a slam dunk.

In a Washington that is more divided than ever, one of the few sources of agreement is that TikTok, the world’s single most popular app, is bad. Very bad. So bad, in fact, that it should be banned. The Chinese short-video app recently had its day in front of Congress, where members of both parties were united in heaping abuse on its hapless Singaporean CEO Shou Zi Chew. TikTok should be doomed.

And yet, the process of banning it is hitting a big stumbling block: Hapless lawmaking. Republican Congressman chasing for a “win” against Big Tech have instead embarrassed themselves and exposed their base to long-term tyranny at the hands of the U.S. administrative state.

Banning TikTok ought to be simple, so naturally, it’s anything but. Instead, Congress is on the precipice of “stopping” TikTok by granting vague, sweeping regulatory authority to yet another branch of the federal government. This time, instead of the FBI, CIA, or DHS, Americans will learn to fear the omnipotent powers of the Department of Commerce.

The bill in question is called the “Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act,” or as it is mercifully abbreviated, the “RESTRICT Act.” The purpose of the RESTRICT Act is, essentially, to allow the Secretary of Commerce to blacklist any tech product, service, or company linked to a “national adversary” that the Secretary considers a threat. For anything banned under the act, a whole universe of “transactions” with them become illegal, and subject to harsh penalties.

Even the press release from Senators Mark Warner and John Thune bragging about the bill’s introduction hints at its underlying problems:

The RESTRICT Act establishes a risk-based process, tailored to the rapidly changing technology and threat environment, by directing the Department of Commerce to identify and mitigate foreign threats to information and communications technology products and services.

What’s a foreign threat? How do you mitigate it? How broad is “information and communications technology products and services?” The answer, when you dig into the details, is basically “whatever the Secretary of Commerce thinks they are.”

As Tucker Carlson highlighted on his program last week, while the RESTRICT Act is pitched as protecting Americans, it will actually make online censorship easier. It’s just that this censorship will be coming from Washington instead of Beijing....
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more & vids at link
 
Not a sweeping ban, no. It would set a new precedent for banning shit. We are all already screwed by numerous private companies who have been drowning themselves in our data for many years now. I understand an organization's need for security and its need to implement organizational rules that require the complicity of its employees to be effective in securing data. Government /= the general public. More can be discussed about how transparent our government should be, however, and what secrets they should be keeping from everybody.
 
 
I think the 'airwaves' NBC CBS PBS CNN Fox ABC ...
all should be tightly regulated...
like no foreigners like the Murdochs should 'own' our airwaves

but the internet should remain the wild wild west
if someone is doing something illegal like sharing doing child porn.. go arrest them

I've known, everyone knows
TicTok is controlled by the CCP
go ahead and be a useful and watch it if you must

but it let's us know what kind of American you are
 
btw
the ban TicToc bill passed congress
on it's way to the Senate ???
ByeDone says he'll sign it
(CCP must be ready to throw ByeDone under a rickshaw)
 
I'm to this point though, what does it really matter? If they ban tik tok from being used in the US, there will just be someone else that picks up the slack and makes the next tik tok data farm app for the US government to use directly instead of China. :shrug:
 
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Vanster said:
Even more funny, you might say downright hilarious, is how many fascists throughout history have held this exact same precept.

TW is a safe-haven for fascism, bigotry, racism, and xenophobia, under the guise of "we are all about free speech."
But Tik Tok is where we draw the Goddamn line. That shit will bring us all down.
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i meant more about how the freedom to do whatever turned into the freedom to take away from others as the majority votes away the freedom...


but sure free speech = fascism i guess
 
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