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I can't believe this is the one thing this congress has actually managed to do. We just want healthcare

I wonder how many of these lawmakers will be invested in the company that swoops in and saves the American public?

Healthcare? Nah, let's fight about it for decades and never give people anything meaningful. Education? Nah, let's make our people go neck deep into debt and still fight about it for decades. Ban TikTok? Hold my bribery, you got it. Gimme 24 hours and you got it, boss.

Its all to get around passing a real privacy law with teeth.

Just as a reminder, we have been 'fighting for 15' since 2012. But when it comes to leveraging foreign companies with bans to force them to sell to US oligarchs we can move at blazing speed through the least functional congrss in recent history. There are two very different Americas depending on how much money you have.

Too bad we can't ban Meta, Twitter, and Snapchat while we're at it.

Even though i dont think banning tiktok is a good idea purely because of the concept, those boards are funny. "Tiktok changed my life for the better"

Do Facebook and Twitter next.

can we ban or move YouTube shorts elsewhere while we are at it?

"The Chinese oligarchs are taking over!" - US oligarchs probably

This comment section is astounding.

If you think it’s good that congress passed a ban of a social media platform tied to a bill funding two foreign wars you’re either a fed or delusional.

If social media apps exist to slurp up as much user info as possible, and they do, then it makes sense to be concerned about the government that they're subject to.

I probably shouldnt be celebrating this but I am. I fucking despise Tiktok with a passion, I hate its users, its creators, I hate the short form content trend it started and its algorithm based content delivery systems that every other app copied but worse, I hate the sexualisation of minors and peddling that content to pedos, I hate the clout chasing in general, I hate tiktok trends and "challenged". and I hate the general brainrot it has caused.

Will there be a TikTok dance on TikTok that covers this event?

Nooooo only I should collect data of the entire world!

They never got over Snowden.

They may just pull out of the US completely

I have mixed feelings. Like I’m glad we’re funding Ukraine, angry we’re finding Israel, and mixed about TikTok. I dislike the app, but that’s no reason to ban something. I think all social media has the issues associated with it except one: a foreign country controls the algorithm. Also this is standard policy for foreign companies in China and turnabout is fair play.

It seems like a lot of people think moves like this are about actual national security like congress claims,

So the next nine months will be TikTok pushing pro Trump propaganda 24/7, mobilising the youth against Biden, only to be forced to sell by Trump anyway because everyone who hops into bed with populists gets fucked regardless.

Weak, totalitarian strategy. If we’re worried about China taking over, becoming China is not the right way to fight that.

And pretending that forcing American ownership cuts out China’s influence is foolish.

Hindsight is so 20/20 in some comments.

Guys, stop focusing on the headline. Read the line underneath it. It's not being banned as in, pushed out of use. It's being severed from it's china-based parent company.

There is such a literacy issue in this country that it's sad.