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The measure that sailed unanimously through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is quickly spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance.
US officials have cited the widespread commercial availability of US citizens’ data as another source of national security risk. The US government and other domestic law enforcement agencies are also known to have purchased US citizens’ data from commercial data brokers.
I’m with Jamaal Bowman on this one, this is just about silencing and deplatforming pesky young people that ask lawmakers to protect the environment and stop genocides
I think this is the right take. There is so much political activism on there, it gets almost annoying at times. 9 times out of 10 if there was some corruption, suspicious trade, or other nefarious thing done by a congress critter I seen it on Tiktok first.
The Federal trollops find hot button issues that hit each generation to keep us all confused and pissed off, and bring up “bills” whenever they want to mess with, and distract us.
It’s so pathetically transparent. They’ll make sure these issues are never truly resolved to keep everyone too busy worrying about basic things so we forget how much they continue to fuck up the entire country for their rich betters.
Right? That was my IMMEDIATE gut reaction.
“We can’t silence the media but we can silence the masses.”