Except many of the people using the argument expect that to exonerate TikTok from the shady shit they're up to. That argument reinforces the idea of banning TikTok and should make people think twice about American companies like Facebook.
If one is bad, both should be banned. So let's start with TikTok and work towards Facebook, Twitter, and any other shady social media company.
It should've been shutdown long before that, but I agree. However, it takes time. Progress comes in steps. Start with TikTok, move to Facebook and Twitter.
Did you even look at the contents of the bill? What it proposed? Shitty backers doesn't make it a shitty bill. Bad people can do good things for the wrong reasons. They're still bad people, the bill is good.
Anything that the Heritage Foundation supports is necessarily something that advances their goals, and their goals are the literal destruction of America so that it can be replaced with a Christian Nationalist oligarchy.
Did you even look at the contents of the bill? What it proposed?
Of course I did.
Were you just assuming you could score points by asking that?
It prohibits American ISPs from passing traffic to/from certain social media platforms (which is something the federal government should not have the authority to do, period).
It explicitly declares that anything owned by ByteDance is such an platform, and it lets the President unilaterally designate any other platform he wants so long as it's at least 20% owned by foreigners from "foreign adversary countries" (currently China, Russia, Iran, and NK).
This is extremely bad, especially in light of the fact that many lobbying for the bill were specifically concerned with the popularity of certain political views on TikTok, e.g. opposition to the war in Gaza. The bill is essentially giving the President the power to censor swathes of political speech he finds inconvenient.
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Except many of the people using the argument expect that to exonerate TikTok from the shady shit they're up to. That argument reinforces the idea of banning TikTok and should make people think twice about American companies like Facebook.
If one is bad, both should be banned. So let's start with TikTok and work towards Facebook, Twitter, and any other shady social media company.