A dozen social and racial justice groups said Thursday that the federal effort to require a sale or ban of TikTok would suppress speech from minority communities by disrupting a critical tool many use to establish connections online and advocate for causes.
  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    This is crap. TikTok is just a video hosting platform with a powerful, China-controlled algorithm that keeps people addicted. If TikTok were to disappear today a new platform would rise to take it’s place within milliseconds. Seriously: Do you honestly think that everyone would just put down their phones and do something else because TikTok doesn’t work anymore‽

    It’s not even being banned! Which is another reason why this article is total bullshit. ByteDance just needs to comply with the law that is meant to prevent the Chinese government from interfering in US politics (yes, that’s the real reason why that law was passed). That means they need to break ties with China or just outright sell the platform to some other company. If they let it die in the US they’d be throwing away billions of dollars which just isn’t going to happen.

    Furthermore, China has absolutely no ground to stand on by complaining about TikTok bans. They ban all sorts of foreign-owned apps in China for more dubious reasons.