well like... all places that arent america, like europe lmao. Also other americans@@bloodygekkon5048 though ofc itd be a smaller community than it is now
this is what i don't get... Tik Tok is not getting banned. At absolute worst, somebody else will just make a clone that does the exact same thing. Most likely it will just get sold and no one will even notice a difference. The thing is a cash cow lol it ain't going ANYWHERE. Everyone calling it a ban is just so weird. There was never talk about banning it. Just getting ownership out of China. Whether or not that's morally right is a different issue but it's not getting banned as of right now.
The funny part to me is that TikTok used to be Musically, which was a successor to Vine, but the current atmosphere is absolutely nothing like what Vine was, and I don't think we'll ever be getting another Vine app.
They've been closing some of the loopholes that lets them ship in all their goods basically untaxed. Which it should've been for noncommercial uses anyways, and that loophole gets filled..
I think the perception that Tik Tok houses bad opinions or trends unique to that platform is wildly incorrect. There are the same crazy people on X or Facebook and they’re not being banned. Plenty of folks thought vine would decimate our attention span. Now I’m regularly watching 45 minutes from those same creators. I’ve never seen those trends mentioned, but I have learned about a lot of great small businesses and musicians.
Yeah seeing the perception of TikTok is wild to me. I’ve learned so much from it, yeah I’ve been on it for awhile so my algorithm is pretty good but still. Every platform has brain rot and some bad apples.
The difference is that tiktok makes viralibility more accessible and pushes harmful content more strongly. The few times I've used tiktok, no matter what kind of content I watch or how silly/harmless it is, it always starts pushing me into the anti-vax, alt-right, conspiracy theorist pipeline. Someone looking for content about healthy eating on another platform is far less likely to come across all this "buy my supplements everything else is poison" crap. People live streaming gacha-style scams is far less common on other platforms. There are far, far more "trends" that sexualize and endanger children on tiktok than anywhere else. No, this content isn't exclusive to tiktok (not even counting reels/shorts, since those only arose due to tiktok and tend to have reposted tiktoks)- but it is so much easier to find and continuously consume that content on tiktok than anywhere else.
Thank you for this! I was able to travel the world and experience other cultures in a bite-sized wholesome manner. It’s typically the fearmongers who have never used the platform who have no idea of how beneficial the app has been in fostering conversation and collaboration across cultures. Then again, lobbyists and lawmakers hate seeing money go into foreign pockets & that intel from alt sources is not regulated scares them 🤷 🦅
@christian_dg4948 Eh, while you can pretty easily hand tailor your experience on the platform since their algorithm is pretty good if you consciously manipulate it, the vast majority of popular content on the platform is mind-numbingly shitty low effort trash. It's got some diamonds in the rough, but having to sift through sewage-tier content to get some half decent stuff shown to me consistently just isn't worth it, and doesn't eliminate the garbage being shown to me outside of the platform. Vine died and the content culture never found a new home(which sucks cause it was primarily bangers), and I'm hoping the same happens to tiktok.
I think a big part of the issue is that through Tik Tok people can get direct testimonies from people; like the people in gaza, the Congo or the student protesters. They use mainly tik tok to spread awareness and seems to be the most friendly app algorithm wise for them. Without Tik Tok they wouldn't get the attention they deserve. Regulations should absolutely happen but the brainrot I see on RU-vid shorts compared to Tik Tok is like nightmarish, sending kids to youtube shorts seems like absolute hell. Still, the app needs to change but so does RU-vid and Instagram and specially Facebook and X
Hard to trust a 30 second clip of testimony from people at war. Or protestors who are largely clueless and in a giant echo chamber. Good point on RU-vid shorts, though. All those people will just flock there.
The issue is that it's even easier to spread astroturfed propaganda than grassroots awareness. In 2016 Russia had a huge propaganda campaign to influence the US election, and that was on social media they don't even own. China having control over the TikTok algorithm means they can make millions of Americans believe whatever viral disinformation China wants them to believe.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied -- chains us all, irrevocably." -- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Its worth mentioning this ban is motivated by US politicians funded by Israeli government trying to curtail speech that is critical of Israel's brazen genocide in Gaza. The US can't control Tiktok the away they can for Facebook and other social media. So they are trying to ban tiktok because a lot of accounts on the app report news about the genocide.
The whole issue the government has is that they aren’t making any money off of selling our data anymore, not that it is being collected. Otherwise they would pass data protection/privacy laws
I'm a teacher and tutor. One of my students who's about 13 asked what JJK is when another student asked me about it. I said it's a show and he genuinely scoffed, because, and I quote, "why would I sit down for 20 minutes? That's so boring." That was the moment I had to shake my fist at clouds.
The problem I have with tiktok is the content they prioritize pushing. Lots of negative mental health content gets pushed on people, even if they just created their account or are using a guest account. Meanwhile tiktok is actually banned in China and the app that they have bars any videos that glorify mental health issues.
i do hate how they can just lump 7 very different things to the same bill. also hate how they can just name a bill what ever. like the "kids online safety act" and it has nothing to do with kids online safety.
I cannot believe they named it that. They need to be targeting RU-vid and the awful content farms that periodically show up on the platform if they really care about kids.
Plenty of rich American guys salivating to own the means of "TikTok" production, so suddenly a bill passes forcing TikTok to sell to an approved investor? 😂
@@ihavenoideaonanything im just saying i havent had that particular flavor of brainrot. Every major company in the world probably knows me better than i do, but my brain is slightly more intact.
For the love of god, stay that way. I've been trapped in this hell hole for years. T_T In all seriousness, TikTok isn't all that bad but it can be addicting, especially for someone like me who has ADHD as is
people say "they won't last on instagram or youtube shorts", but like no one is talking about how they'll be migrating to those sites and changing the landscape, the entire algorithm. Brainrot content will most likely skyrocket in those sites, changing everything as creators will seek to compete to stay relevant on the algorithm. Creators are going to have to either keep what they're doing now, or adapt to the changing landscape of RU-vid and Instagram. It's exactly what happened to Yahoo Answer users migrating to Quora, and Twitter moving to Instagram and Tumblr.
As a man who hates tik tok I hate how it took a social media to get both Democrats and Republicans unanomusly do something while letting other problems in the United States be put on the back burner.
Yes, as an American I also hate how Republicans vote NO on every issue except this one. I also hate taking away women's rights and the Jan 6th insurrection.
It’s not like they aren’t trying to pass laws to help homeless and poors, but lots of bills targetting to help poor people were rejected by Americans, mostly conservatives
You can't have a functioning society without poor people. You have to have poor and rich. And almost all homeless people are homeless because they're drug addicts or alcoholics and would rather pay for their addiction than bills. That's their own fault.
@@breadogi7118 if $100 for the poors can’t even be passed then there’s no point trying for anything more. Idgaf about what happens with Israel, it’s whataboutism. I’d love for us to reduce military spending for education and healthcare but that ain’t happening, with any president
@@1DeathScythe36people who think like you are a cancer on humanity. Literally. You'd rather offer justifications instead of help (hurdur someone has to suffer so i can make money off of them cause i value money over humanity) Yeah there's drug abuse and alcoholics rampant in the homeless however instead of, idk, offer any sort of compassion, you'd focus on the fact they made shitty choices and "deserve" what they got. Just why are humans like this?
@@highcapnativeheir to the throne was in open top car, got shot by serbian nationalist, people took it as an excuse to start WWI which would have happened anyways, this was just the catalyst
Large data brokers (who have extremely detailed profiles on you), are very much not against selling your data directly to China, this legislation pretty much does nothing.
Yep. And if TikTok divests to a US company, they'll just continue doing the same thing but with different goals. In fact I trust China more than I trust our own government and corporations at this point. China just wants to make our kids stupid so they can pull ahead. DC, Silicon Valley and the big CEOs want far worse.
I’ve been conflicted about this the whole time for the same reasons I hate TikTok with a passion, but I think society alone should be the judge of which platforms live and die rather than out of touch 60-80 year olds who post “how to open pdf” as a Facebook status
The impetus for this comes from 30-somethings with the Department of Homeland Security being uncomfortable with the idea of 170 million Americans being broadcast the truth according to the CCP. It's being forced to divest because the Chinese government has used it as a platform to disseminate propaganda and misinformation to American citizens.
As much as I hate TikTok, I can't deny that this could set a fairly dangerous precedent for social media apps. Brainrot will always exist, and if TikTok gets banned, creators will just migrate to RU-vid shorts, similarly how Yahoo Answers shut down and caused the people posting there to move to Quora.
I notice RU-vidrs are more logical than Tiktokers so I doubt we will let it brain rot hard because it would most likely get shut down by just pure common sense lol.
Now imagine if the government put all this energy towards issues like unaffordable healthcare, groceries, rent, inadequate education, wage stagnation, immigration, mental health crisis, etc. 'Ya know, stuff that matters.
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me” - Pastor Martin Niemöller I personally don’t use TikTok, and am of a similar opinion as Charlie. At first I thought that this would be beneficial to the population as a whole, but then I thought of this poem. So long as this app isn’t a major danger to the U.S. population, restriction or a ban isn’t the right option.
A lot of Charlie's criticisms aren't right though. eg. Tiktok doesn't shorten attention spans. Human attention is naturally short but once you decide to you can focus on something for longer (except those of us with ADHD). What tiktok does is give people tons of short content that fits in that existing short attention span that don't require you to focus for longer which disincentives people from choosing longer content, because why would you? You get the same entertainment without the work. To be clear, I do consider this a bad thing, but it's just important to note that attention spans haven't changed, people have just been given reasons to not want to use theirs. A good example of the flaw of this criticism is the subway surfers stuff. Most videos that use Minecraft parkour/other gameplay that get popular are audio-only videos. It's just something to watch so you're not staring at a blank black screen. Imagine a RU-vid video that's just blank black with some guy talking. That would be miserable. Most of the content that you see spread around that people use as examples of to say that TikTok is causing brainrot are actually very unpopular. Content creators make good content, that takes off, and then several of thousands of bot accounts will select that video because of its view count and repost the video with subway surfer clips or whatever. These don't get nearly the popularity as the original video but there's countless of these bot accounts reuploading the same videos thousands of times. Most of them get a few hundreds or thousand of views compared to millions for the original videos. Those versions are the ones that get big on RU-vid Shorts, though, while the official channels of those content creators are usually used for longer form content and so you never see the original version of those videos, making it seem like everything that comes out of TikTok uses Minecraft or Subway Surfers. All in all, it does seem like the strategy of putting games with other content does help that content get bigger than it would, hence why the bot accounts keep using that strategy to help their reposts gain tiny bits of traction, but the content that blows up on the app is typically content that was made for the sake of the content, even if some of that content is stupid, and creators that care about their content don't use the strategy. Part of the reason this is even an issue, though, is because TikTok's algorithm is actually way more fair to small creators than any other platform. It's very, very common to get someone on your FYP that has around 10 likes an no comments on their videos because they haven't blown up, yet they still show up on your FYP. Those bot accounts get a lot of views off what they do because TikTok is willing to show videos from smaller creators and the strategies those bot accounts use is just enough to take advantage of that.
People getting concerned about data being collected haven't read a single one of the terms and conditions of facebook, twitter, microsoft or google, or even looked into where that goes.
" find joy and be inspired.... also have every single keystroke you've made since you downloaded the app analyzed and saved to a server, dont worry we promise not to do anything with this information worth trillions of dollars"
I despise TikTok and will never use it. However, when the government starts banning things like TikTok when does it stop. They could use the same logic for RU-vid as well. Parents need to step up and be parents and make sure they know what their kids are doing online and stop making the government do it for them
This. The US government can coerce/extort/force American companies to take down things or "misinformation" they don't like. They can't do that with a foreign company. Tell me, which app have people been using to expose what's been going on in Gaza, which makes the US look very bad...?
Exactly! Kids should not even have a damn smartphone until atleast 16. My 14 year old brotherhas a flip phone which he is grateful for. And now he is one of the only kids in his school that actually have intelligence😂💀💀
I'm one of the people in my age group that never got into tiktok, even an old coworker of mine was suprised I never really used tiktok and said he would spend up to 8 HOURS straight on it, but i couldn't say anything as I'm literally on my phone/videogames as much lol
I think gaming and watching TV shows are a bit hit different to tiktok. Shows and games at least engage the brain while I think tiktok has the effect of putting people on auto pilot which isn't great.
While I get annoyed by tiktok and the fact that there’s so much brain rot on it, I agree. That’s a terrifying precedent. It feels like an incredible overstep of government power and honestly goes against the so called “freedom” principle that this whole country is about…
Honestly, I would be happy about this if I didn’t know how many small businesses were kickstarted by TikTok. My own family members have been able to get traction on their business because of TikTok and let’s be real Instagram is just not good for that.
Exactly, I don’t think congress understands how vital something like TikTok is to small businesses. I’ve actually found several great businesses in my state thanks to it. I’ve even bought books from several authors. It’s just sad that US companies fail to do something better than a foreign app, which should be the other way around.
@@Dirty-Leprechaun but the thing is its harder on other platforms to get traction, Instagram is horrible for that, and X is horrible as well. There are no other apps that actually put your work out there. I'm a small business and Instagram has gotten me no traction while TikTok has helped me get some people interested.
Ironic how much censorship is brought up in regards to banning the app, yet the app has the highest amount of word censorship I've ever seen, which is where creation of infamous terms like "un-alive" and "neurospicy" came into popular usage
This is like the biggest non-argument ever, and especially ironic, when you’re mentioning it on a platform that has also experienced multiple phases in which certain words were deemed not advertiser friendly. I vividly remember when some RU-vidrs were using ‘game-ended’ and RU-vidrs today still need to censor their curses. Tiktok is not the pioneer of restricting or punishing content that contains strong vocabulary, and to think so is really really funny.
@heyitskukii there's "advertiser-friendly"/"child-safe" censorship, and there's tiktok-level censorship where you can't say anything relating to being LGBTQIA+ or neurodivergent(beyond ADD/ADHD) because words like "autistic" and "lesbian" are censored and shadowbanned (e.g. why some people say "acoustic" or "tism/tistic" instead of autistic)
@@Ariaea11 the term acoustic was literally a meme in one of the trends on the app just because of how similar it sounds. In terms of shadowbanning, I've seen numerous neuro divergent and lesbian creators on the app, have you used it or are you judging from an outside perspective?
I think it's important to note that this bill is ONLY a ban if TikTok does not domesticize in the US. The corporation that operates TikTok, called ByteDance, is extremely shady with their connections directly with the Chinese government as well as their proposal that TikTok is / should be regarded as "an app for children without their parents present." Edit: TikTok is also a Chinese National Asset.
I genuinely want it gone. I'm not lying when I say Tiktok is full of P DO PILES. I've been trolling with some weirdos who want to excuse grooming with their age of consent shenanigans and how it used to be norm back in the days, and I responded like "well surprise surprise, they're still kids 💀" They don't take that fact very well
The fact that this ban only applies to TikTok and yet Wish, AliExpress, Shein and Temu are still allowed who are doing the same thing with our data says to me that there’s a different underlying reason that the government is banning it. It’s not just China getting our data, it’s something else. As someone who stays far away from TikTok, I have no way of knowing what that reason really is, but I agree that it’s definitely an attack on personal freedom.
Exactly. Not to mention, even if we banned all those Chinese sites, American companies sell our data to grey market data brokers and China could easily get it from them. No, this is 100% a cash grab for the big American social media magnates and attack on free speech, particularly the already disenfranchised younger generations
It doesn't matter. The government banned lawn darts, Four Loko, Juul and a million other things too. It's still a commerce issue and not a speech issue.
I work for a digital marketing company running ads on Meta and Tiktok. What I can say is that this will surely be a huge blow to Tiktok because US makes up more than 50% of the market (that's the rest of the world vs US). Which is the only reason why they want to fight for it not the community
Charlie… tiktok isn’t the only thing killing peoples attention spans, RU-vid Shorts, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels.. they’re all the same 😭 edit: anyone says “well if tiktoks didn’t exist these wouldn’t either” RU-vid was guaranteed to have Short form content and also if Vine and Musically didn’t exist neither would Tiktok, your point is flawed, if you hate the “origin” of brain rot, blame Vine
Exactly! These sheeple need to open their brains and realize tiktok is only "bad" because they don't understand it and they only see the bad side of it. Like every single platform has a "bad side".
yea but all those things were inspired by tiktok and its popularity. not saying theyre not bad, but if it werent for tiktok, those features probably wouldntve been implemented.
@@Hallunixating guarantee, at some point, short form chontent would have made it to these platforms, regardless of tiktok. Shoot, it was a thing during vine, and musicaly. Way before tiktok. Blaming tiktok does nothing 🤷♂️
It's really just about the data being collected and where it's going. If TikTok was run by an entity in the US or was at least sharing that data with the US, there'd be no problem with it whatsoever.
No it isn’t about your privacy or national security reasons. Charlie has done a piss poor job explaining the real reason behind this TT ban. Sen. Pete ricketts was caught on a leaked audio recording stating the real reason for the ban. It’s because the younger generation gets their news from TT, have you not been paying attention outside of the internet? Have you not seen the protests on university campuses? This is why they want to ban it. Because the younger generation are heavily pro Palestine. We are calling for an end to this genocide. Our leaders have been bought by AIPAC. They have taken more than $100k in bribes to do the bidding of isnotreal. If this isn’t textbook treason, then I don’t know what is. Oh and the reason why they support isnotreal more than the American people, that’s why. Also they want Armageddon to come, which is why both democrats and republicans will support the Zionist project more than the US
They have been controlling the information for decades, but it’s 2024. The age of technology and social media, you cannot hide and keep the public blind of a genocide of over 2.2 million people in 2024. They’ve lost the narrative and they’re desperately trying to keep all of us in line. Sad to see so many of this guy’s followers support the side of imperialism
Just so people know in the United States: “Section 310(b) of the Communications Act restricts who can hold a broadcast license, and prohibits foreign-organized corporations from doing so” While this doesn’t directly apply to tiktok as it’s not fully the same concept, it’s very similar. We are allowing a foreign media to control what we see.
It's about freedom of information. Tik Tok is like hijacking the world establishment of American operating systems. Not much more is needed than the current user-base to introduce their own device and circumvent everrything. Expecting a total boycot of China electronics and software this year.
This isn’t going to take away TikTok it’s going to make China sell the app to US stakeholders. It’s pretty plain that China controls the app either partially or fully and amplifies discourse that makes US citizens more divided than ever on purpose and pushes destructive trends. If US stakeholders get it, it will likely change and be more like how reels is, which is just regular amounts of divisive and stupid and keeps them accountable for the ways app affects us whereas we can’t really sue or punish a Chinese company operating in China.
It's because they are banning it so people cannot get access to news about the genocide against Palestinians. That's why you are all of a sudden seeing headlines; it's because in recent months people on TikTok have been making videos on what is actually happening over there.
I am a teacher and while I have seen the detrimental impact TikTok has had on students, I see this as primarily a parenting issue where kids have unregulated access to the internet. Before TikTok, when I was in middle school and high school, kids were still recording themselves doing dangerous things online (like setting themselves on fire and snorting things). Kids just posted it to other sites or shared it through texts instead. Additionally, our data is constantly being used and sold through U.S. companies as well, and the amount of misinformation that is shared on other social media sites is comparable. Unfortunately, while TikTok is full of garbage, it also gives users the ability to share first-hand experiences that other platforms don't allow (like first-hand accounts of things happening in Gaza right now), and I think that's the real reason behind the ban. There has been a lot of social unrest as average people become more connected and find power in bettering their community by opposing current systems of power. If our government actually cared about our data, they would regulate other social media sites more. If they cared about children, they wouldn't be dissolving public schools and promoting unregulated access to firearms. If they cared about mental health, they would make therapy more readily available. I seriously doubt this ban is due to user data concerns.
If the app is such a security risk that government officials can’t even have it installed on any device, I feel like that speaks volumes about why it’s getting banned.
@@devoursilentyour defense its irrelevant. its specifically being canceled because its a chinese owned company and the u.s government knows it’s a security risk. not about what is being produced on the platform😭 like do you not pay attention
@@devoursilent TikTok was one of the prime driving force of that garbage content though, well rather Vine was the start, but TikTok took up the mantle and managed to evolve it into something much worse. Then everyone else thought they had to do it too.
Sadly, this is the fastest I've seen a bill go through congress and signed by the President. There's hundreds of actually pressing matters that could've been passed in place of this : /
@@gapsule2326 It's 100% because of Israel. They're upset that young people get news from Tik Tok that exposed all of the war crimes they are currently Committing. This is the only reason.
I never actually thought this ban would go through tbh. Granted some of the previous bans were for government devices, but those should be expected. The banning of TikTok as a whole for everyone would’ve never been something I actually expected.
@@rawhidelamp no if a bill with multiple things is passed, the president either signs the bill or vetoes the bill they cannot choose items in the bill that they like or dislike. Governors on other hand, you have the ability to do so but the president does not.
@@jeremys3951 personal opinion I think the content on tiktok is better. on RU-vid shorts it's nearly all made by channels with 50k+ subscribers and so tik tok content just feels more, human
Glad to see Democrats and Republicans could agree on something for once. Now if they could put this much energy towards something that actually mattered that'd be great
Dude whenever I go on RU-vid shorts tiktok reels etc I just start scrolling and a few brainless minutes or seconds later I’m like wtf am I doing and I stop 😭 it’s actually so bad the way it’s set up for you to not want to leave the apps.
That’s exactly how it’s set up. To be addicting as possible. I personally think we should have a global ban on videos below 1 min or maybe more. It really fucks up your brain
@@supervillainnova8352yes let it be known the reason for the tiktok ban is to prevent people from seeing these events unfold. The gov literally said theyre either banning it or they can sell tiktok to meta. Ppl have no idea the real purpose behind this ban, which was attached onto a foreign aid package to israel !!!
When it comes to tik tok I'm less concerned about them stealing our data and more concerned about them clearly using different algorithms for different countries for the sake of political subversion in line with Mao's 100-year plan. Specifically, they promote things that are typically coercive to societies in Western nations and things that promote civilization building in China and their allied nations.
I like freedom too, but damn, its made people think being genuine assholes to strangers and commiting crime is fun and normal all for clout. Just get rid of it.
It will just be replaced by an identical service under a different name. Social media will never die so long as the public at large feeds it our time and attention.
Yes, but it will be controlled and filtered by US moneyed interests. Censorship rarely ever works out in beneficial ways. This is only happening because they support the Gaza genocide and the IDF soldiers keep posting war crimes.
@@tonedeaftachankagaming457 A social media service regulated by its citizens is a fantasy story. A new service will just be another corporate data harvesting machine like Tiktok but served up by the nation that claims moral superiority while having no right to do so.
Most other platforms (ignoring kick) have moderation and standards. You won't get away with the criminal shit tiktokers do for views. Also they have age requirements for making content so that gets rid of so many pathetic clueless teens who think their "harmless pranks" are just content for views.
What’s really confusing is that people see this as a good thing because kids are gonna go outside now. No they are not they are going to be on RU-vid. I don’t understand why some people think that RU-vid doesn’t give people brain rot. Literally what people complain about tiktok other apps do. TikTok doesn’t have a magnet that sucks on to people. YOU can put your phone down. YOU can go outside and read books. Hell you can do both, you can like tiktok and read! Did people forget booktok exists. It’s messy but hey they are still books
the main problem with shit-tok was the fact that your data could/or have been sold to China, whereas in the other cases like YT shorts, your data is at least sold to somewhere else
Because it's generally not a good idea for a democracy to have one of its biggest social media platforms controlled by a DICTATORSHIP. We should recognize there's not really a moral equivalence between the two. Especially when we know they use it to suppress info about genocide going within their borders and we know algorithms can be used to subtly influence people through subtle changes in the algorithm or by design.
@@Randommangorar Was it really tho? People really be spinning in circles without realizing, and this is coming from someone who grew up on MLG and YTP brainrot
@@randomstormtrooper3345 I grew up and still watch YTP and trust me, it's miles better than tiktok and actually involves a good community and passion put into the random humor.
real honest, everyone needs to open a book (or comics/bandes dessinées if you're too visual) this shit heals the brain, just have to find what each of us likes
i completely agree. however, i will also add that theres a big double standard with internet people where they get pissed at parents for attempting to supervise or suggest or stop kids from getting on bad things, yet get pissed at parents when they dont do anything to stop kids accessing those things. not saying you’re doing this, but some people just dont pick up on that double standard.
As much as I dislike tiktok, I think that this sets a really bad precedent. Outright banning the platform entirely shows that the U.S. government is not afraid of and is entirely capable of censoring information they don’t like. All that being said, I sure won’t be crying over TikToks death.
yea dont illegally download all keystrokes made on someone's phone who doesn't even own the app is just in proximity of someone who owns the app and are on the same network, American companies cant do that, they will be abolished and sent to jail for felony charges. Chinese companies have no such precedent. Do research before you start spouting precedents
@@aydenross7605Yeah maybe you should do some research yourself bud. TikTok isn't recording keystrokes of users who don't have the app, even Pegasus can't do that. And if you think keystroke pattern collections are bad, I doubt you wanna know all the other information your other apps are collecting from you.
Chinese have more freedom of speech than americans. In China you cant critsiz: Chinese government. If you do you get a fair trail and pay the fine/go to jail. In the US you cant criticize: the goverment, women, trannies, gay ppl, black ppl, brown ppl, the jews, elections, s*x education for children, fbi, war in the middle east, ukraine and the list go on. If you do you have no right for a fair trail, you get doxed by media, and lose job.
also the way TikTok said it made it sound only Americans use the app like oh if you shut us down billions of americans will lose their voice like why are they all of a sudden pretending America is the only country? if they leave it open for other countries we have VPNs now, Americans can easily just you know switch to EU and enter tiktok
