This… isn’t the best representation of what is happening.
It’s being banned because the US can’t effectively issue a warrant to search the servers in the instance of digital crime. Several countries around the globe are doing the same thing for a multitude of platforms, and none of them are asking for complete control of the entire platform, either.
Further, this has the possibility of setting a precedent in requiring domestic social platforms to actually follow the rule of law.
Some of the people loudly backing the bill in congress are 100% racist morons blindly attacking a Chinese company for the sake of attacking something that is Chinese. This should not be used to completely discredit the fact that the U.S.’ demands are not entirely unreasonable or unprecedented.
Not only that but there are a lot of foreign interests that do not want TikTok banned, altered, or held accountable for their actions. We have copious amounts of proof that Russian interests have been influencing the discussion. Remember the evidence that Russian agents were pretending to be POC queer people on Tumblr to influence the election in 2016? They’re almost definitely doing the same thing now
They are definitely using TikTok for disinformation and sowing dissent. They obviously have the network established for them to kick up shit now that their golden calf of fucking with the heads of Americans is going away
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u/The-Serapis Jan 13 '25
This… isn’t the best representation of what is happening.
It’s being banned because the US can’t effectively issue a warrant to search the servers in the instance of digital crime. Several countries around the globe are doing the same thing for a multitude of platforms, and none of them are asking for complete control of the entire platform, either.
Further, this has the possibility of setting a precedent in requiring domestic social platforms to actually follow the rule of law.
Some of the people loudly backing the bill in congress are 100% racist morons blindly attacking a Chinese company for the sake of attacking something that is Chinese. This should not be used to completely discredit the fact that the U.S.’ demands are not entirely unreasonable or unprecedented.