When right wing extremist billionaires buy a social media platform, they manipulate and control it to ensure the extremist views they subscribe to are seen, heard and promoted first and foremost.

I believe there should be a law that NO billionaire can own a social media company for this reason: simply, Democracy.

A better idea would be that there be no billionaires in the first place. That would solve almost all of the problems facing society these days.

And some think it'll be turned off on all phones the day the "ban" goes into effect.

The bill is composed of less than two pages of text. People will listen for hours and read thousands of words about the bill and yet say they can't find the bill or don't have time to read it.

Then again, I have kids who spend all day on their phones and when it comes to an Internet search take far too long to look up a simple fact.

Ain't that the damn truth!

... the reddest herring I ever did see!
I'm no technological wizard, and correct me if I'm wrong, but if a pimple-faced incel sniffing his own farts in his mother's basement can commandeer someone's computer on the other side of the country, then there is little or nothing that will stop a determined Chinese hacker from gleaning whatever information he wants from a teenager's dance video, or makeup tutorial on Tik Tok. But national secrets? Probably not.
Get a fuckin' grip, Chicken Little! Spreading rumors that Biden will sign a bill banning Tik Tok is a tempest in a teapot created to get 18-year-olds' bloomers in a bunch so they won't want to vote for Biden, no matter what Tay Tay says.
Biden should just let this half-baked scam seep into the manure pile with all the other Republican bullshit, but only after Dark Brandon ridicules it to death.
Show 'em how it's done, Joe.

it’s prime asset, with the likely new owners being a gang of rightwing oligarchs, is so much better?

Our immediate threat is almost entirely domestic.

Was the Grindr Divestiture in 2020 an ACT OF WAR as well? Or are you even aware of that?

Grindr has been sold by its Chinese owner after the US expressed security concerns / Grindr was sold for about $608.5 million
By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.
Mar 6, 2020 at 11:26 AM MST

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/6/21168079/grindr-sold-chinese-owner-us-cfius-security-concerns-kunlun-lgbtq

Just curious.

they are comparable to Russia as US adversaries. The Chinese government of course, not the civilian people.

and having no desire to use the data mined from it for its political whims?

And yes, I would prefer that yet another vastly popular social media platform was not taken over by domestic fascist plutocrats.

Unless you've lived there, westerners know nothing about the place. I lived there 15 years, fluently speak the language, and married a Chinese woman.

Got a link for that? I never encountered any hostility on my trip.

and the enemy were "America, Britain, Japan, and Israel."

These military trainings in ALL levels of education normally happen in August before classes begin.

But again, I only lived there from 2008-2023. What the fuck do I know?

Someone who went there on a "trip" knows more than someone who lived there 15 years, worked there, speaks the language fluently, and married a citizen that went through the same military training shit in HS and University.

Now, they do it in elementary schools.

As for evidence, I witnessed all of this FIRST hand.

But you made it sound like they teach kids in school to kill Americans if they see one (like Hamas teaches kids in school to kill Israelis).

Americans are the enemy of China for the better part of eight years. . .

There's a reason my wife and I left.

Oh, their teachers are all Party members too. To be a teacher in China, you MUST be a Party member.

TicToc is in 150 counties- no big problem for
ByteDance if they are not in America for awhile. They are worth 300 billion.

The Chinese company TenCent is an investor in ByteDance & they are invested in Reddit, Pinterest, SnapChat plus more -I’m sure Vanguard & Blackwater own all these companies too.

My God, we believe Communist China on DU. WTF????

TicToc is in 150 countries. Why would ByteDance give up a great business for just one country?

Plus other Chinese businesses are heavy invested in Reddit, Pinterest, Snapchat etc.

The house gqp eager to pass this knows it would be a big political win for them. 170 million ppl don’t want it to go away. You don’t think they are going to blame the Dems for its demise?? Wake up Dems that support the bill!!

business license in the US.

Stop being a platform for CCP propaganda. It's not a ban unless Byte Dance doesn't sell.

He also sees this is huge mistake politically with 170 million users. The gqp is frothing at the mouth to tie this around President Biden’s neck!

You might educate yourself…TikTok cannot be sold …period!

They are the largest holder - with 40% of TicToc. The rest is owned internationally.