TikTik regulation bill’s future looking wobbly in Senate as calls—and threats—pour in: ‘OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you’
TikTik regulation bill’s future looking wobbly in Senate as calls—and threats—pour in: ‘OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you’
While more aggressive than most, TikTok’s extensive lobbying campaign is the latest attempt by the tech industry to head off any new legislation — and it's a fight the industry usually wins.
The young voices in the messages left for North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis were laughing, but the words were ominous.
“OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you,” one said, giggling and talking over other young voices in the background. “I’ll shoot you and find you and cut you into pieces.” Another threatened to kill Tillis, and then take their own life.
Tillis’s office says it has received around 1,000 calls about TikTok since the House passed legislation this month that would ban the popular app if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake. TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers. “The government will take away the community that you and millions of other Americans love,” read one pop-up message from the company when users opened the app.
Cool zoomers to US congress and senate members : 
TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers.
Lol the first time I contacted my representatives was because Failblog told me to in order to kill the Stop Online Piracy Act around 2009. Glad the tradition's being kept alive.
TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers.
Isn't this exactly what brunch liberals want us to do? Contact our elected representatives and voice our opinions?
The kids are alright
Gotta apply the school drills to real life situations, otherwise what’s the point of practicing?
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that's amazing, senators are getting death threats over banning tiktok, i love it, dumbest future
edit: commas for fediverse
Honestly I'm just very happy they're getting thousands of death threats in close succession and I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth
🎶 Celebrate good times, come on! 🎶
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The dem party immediately collapsing due to TikTok would be funny
like the collapse of the Whigs but over TikTok instead of slavery
Inshallah
I'm pretty sure we're basically in the eye of the cool zone so yeah why not
If you've spent your entire life practicing hiding under desks for when some incel tries to murder you and all your friends while the government refuses to do anything and then that same government takes away something you and all your friends like and tells you it's to protect your safety, when it's really obvious it's just so American companies can ruin it and fuck you over, jihad seems like a pretty modest proposal.
College kids are just as mad lol they're gonna lose so many votes, Trump is pretty much guaranteed atp
This is why a lot of pro trans stuff is getting shot down too. There was just a safe-haven bill that got killed in Maine due to death threats. The fact that they won't listen to anything but death threats is bleak af.
I wonder if there is a lesson here...
For legal reasons this is a joke.
Here in the UK politicians are very concerned with "online bullying" of politicians.
What they actually mean is the threats that they receive.
There is a very real attempt being made to increase powers against it which suggests to me that they find it an effective political tool and they don't like that.
I will finally download tiktok if it fills up with videos of kids doing the fortnite dance while yeeting their senator
Recreating the final boss fight from Metal Gear Rising with Mitch McConnel playing Armstrong.
crazy pans and zooms and bouncing off of buildings to grapple and shoot and explode some old guy who can barely stand up without assistance
What you should do when you see a slavemaster
Halo: CE M41 SSR MAV/AW (SPNKr) features TWO disposable rocket tubes
Marines when they have to fight teenagers
Things that Mitch McConnel & Diane Feinstein wouldn't survive
My Personal Favorite: What you should do when you see a slavery defender (TikTok later axed the sound on this one so this is the backup on youtube)
Do it old man. Fuck around and find out. The children will Floss on your corpse
TikTok has shootersXi is activating his strongest sleeper agents in the US right now
TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers.
Egads! The horror of people being organised politically! How nefarious!
"Participate is the process!"
"No. Not like that!"
“I mean, it’s almost embarrassing,” says Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., a former tech executive who is also supporting the TikTok bill and has long tried to push his colleagues to regulate the industry. “I would hate for us to maintain our perfect zero batting average on tech legislation.”
this shit would put you in the fucking negatives my guy
unadulterated xenophobia
'Is this privacy legislation?'“I mean, it’s almost embarrassing,” says Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va.
Huh, I wouldn't have expected him to be an Overwatch player.
Rare treat defender W.
If it passes the Senate, there's still a good chance it's DOA in the courts, just because it's so nakedly anti business
Is also blatantly anti-free speech. It’s massive government censorship, the equivalent of the cops storming into a newspaper’s offices and seizing the presses to stop publishing.
It’s wild.
I agree with you if the obvious law was followed
however there are still anti BDS laws (blatant first amendment violation) as well as the entirety of the NSA and patriot act (blatant 4th amendment violators)
the courts pick and choose and if something has a sliver of plausible pro-cop or pro-“national security” value (defined by the same agencies violating rights eg DHS, FBI, NSA…) it could very well be upheld by courts.
of course the idea that TikTok is a national security risk while facebook or twitter or the NSA somehow ARENT is based in racism, delusions and fairytales Americans keep telling. those are things hogs love…and judges are just overeducated hogs usually, so, my faith in them is nearly zero.
Oh yeah, but we never really gave a shit about any of that.
Well.. in a roundabout way maybe, but the US Congress is getting around a direct Free Speech conflict by only demanding that any Chinese interests divest from the company. If they sell (which they probably won't) then Congress technically gets a "win" and TikTok will continue to exist as is.
I'm in DC for a work thing and was shocked to see a TV ad extolling the virtues of TikTok. It basically followed the story of wounded purple heart Grandpa who needed a new scooter. The family tried everything but couldn't afford it and then... they took to tiktok. Holy shit! They were able to afford a scooter after donations rolled in! Isn't tiktok amazing?
It didn't specifically end with a call to congressman to stop the ban, but you could tell that's what they were going for.
Using their weepy "inspirational" misery porn and veteran-worship against them.
YouTube has been running TikTock adds like crazy.
Wobbly?
"If you want to make a difference, write and call up your congressperson. No, not like that!"
"If you want to make a difference, write and
callshoot up your congressperson. No, not like that!"
This is the Land of the Treats, of course threatening to take them away results in death threats lol. How are they surprised?
I hope the calls and threats to kill Thom Tillis never stop 🥹
👏 MORE 👏 DEATH 👏 THREATS 👏 FOR 👏 POLITICIANS 👏
Bullying Worke
Now do this but for going to the doctor
I would never do this because it's illegal and a crime but it's very legal to laugh heartily and beam proudly and come away with a markedly better mood
no more half measures walter
