President Biden signed a bill that states if TikTok doesn't cut ties with its China-based parent company ByteDance over the next nine months to a year, it will be banned in the U.S.
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.
Honestly I’m not super in love with either. The internet should be one of our greatest achievements, and while I think companies like meta and bytedance are harming it for their own profit, I definitely don’t want the government controlling it.
Doesn’t the chinese government de facto control it right now? What makes control by the american government any worse? If anything, it’s a slight improvement.
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.
Honestly I’m not super in love with either. The internet should be one of our greatest achievements, and while I think companies like meta and bytedance are harming it for their own profit, I definitely don’t want the government controlling it.
Doesn’t the chinese government de facto control it right now? What makes control by the american government any worse? If anything, it’s a slight improvement.
Practically, yes. On paper though, it is a private entity owned by foreign nationals.
If people read or listened to what people actually said, they couldn’t get their hit of self-righteous rage.
And a right wing group of investors want to buy it. Own the news.