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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it
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Cool, now let's ban Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and every single social media platform that does the same exact thing as TikTok. I have never used TikTok, but this is fucking bullshit. Facebook literally ruined elections and lives around the world.
Only the US is allowed to ruin elections.
Technically true of any country: only China is allowed to influence CCP elections, only Russia is allowed to fix Russian elections, only the US is allowed to ruin US elections...
They still try to influence each other's ones, but they aren't openly "allowed" to...
Why would the American government ban companies based under their own jurisdiction? They can make use of all those other companies just like the Chinese government can make use of TikTok.
Sounds good.
the internet was a mistake
These social networks need to be heavily regulated. But in saying that, it is better that China doesn’t have an app on hundreds of millions of American’s phones.