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Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it

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Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

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Biden signs TikTok ban bill into law after passing it as part of the Ukraine Funding Bill. ByteDance has been given 9 months to fully divest.

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Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it

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Al the problems in America and this is what the federal government decides to focus on
- This was part of an overall package including aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan.
  
  Is that supposed to make it better?
- Its not helping Biden not being able to censor information on his part genocide. None of them gave a fuck about tiktok until they told em to take down pro Palestinian content and got told "lulnope"
  
  Tiktok has been a subject of national security concerns since at least 2020.
So much for the land of the free.🤦🏻‍♂️
- What? The "land of the free"? Whoever told you that is your enemy
Thanks AIPAC, for protecting Americans from foreign misinformation campaigns.
- They outlawed Fox News?
  Don't pretend this is about disinformation.
  Fox News is disinformation peddler numero uno.
  This is about the seizure of media outlets that don't parrot pro-capitalist propaganda.
  But it's too late, the majority of each generation millennial and later is anti-capitalist. The critique media will simply change form.
  
  No, only boomers watch Fox News, young people watch TikTok making it a way more potent weapon.
  
  Fox News isn't rallying people to support Palestine.
- So they banned facebook and twitter too? 'Cause...
  https://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-voters-before-2016-election/
  https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/03/06/pro-trump-twitter-bot-campaign-already-spreading-propaganda-about-gop-rivals-report-says/?sh=c3f5e6bfe701
  
  No, Facebook and Twitter are still useful for the status quo.
- Oh please. The anti-TikTok hysteria has been going on much longer than the Israeli invasion of Gaza, and the narrative has largely been about national security concerns, particularly as they relate to election misinformation.
  Agree or not with the anti-China rhetoric about TikTok, but at least argue about the facts and not inane conspiracy theories.
Makes sense. There is no way you let a foreign adversary control an app that serves 100m of your citizens emotionally charged shortform content.
That would similar to the ccp owning every major American news network combined.
- I believe most people in this thread are missing your point in which I agree.
- To play devil's advocate here, I think it's necessary for a social media platform to exist that's outside the control of the US government. Just because we have the first amendment here that doesn't mean our speech is protected, just look at what happens when protesters do it the "wrong" way.
  Does that mean China gives a shit about our freedoms? No. They just won't be forced into censoring things the US would want though, and the gap between their opposing hegemonic ambitions is where people can truly say what they want about the US in certain topics. While it's true the CCP is data mining American citizens, their reach to compromise individuals is dwarfed by what US companies can do already.
  
  Im curious if you think it would be OK for ccp to own to own CNN and fox news and control broadcasting for hundreds of millions of Americans.
- Hahaha yeah tell that to every other country that has Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and every other American social media company serving it's citizens emotionally charged content. Facebook was even implicated in inciting a genocide. The US isn't any better than the CCP here. Though it very much falls into capitalist rather than state control, the end result isn't much different.
  
  I never said the us was any better. im very aware of the us influence on the internet. But there is a big difference between the us and China and say the us and britan or the us and (any small country that isn't allied with the us but is to small to go independent).
  Adversarial nations that are big enough to break free of FAANG company already have. Russia and China do not what the us dominating their social media landscapes. Why would the us allow China to dominates its social media landscape when they can ban it and supplement it with companies that are within their governments arms reach.
gonna kiss myself with a cement brick if they let zuckerberg buy it and turn it into the same UX nightmare that reels is
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that includes a bill that would ban TikTok if China-based parent company ByteDance fails to divest the app within a year.
The divest-or-ban bill is now law, starting the clock for ByteDance to make its move.
While just recently the legislation seemed like it would stall out in the Senate after being passed as a standalone bill in the House, political maneuvering helped usher it through to Biden’s desk.
The House packaged the TikTok bill — which upped the timeline for divestment from the six months allowed in the earlier version — with foreign aid to US allies, which effectively forced the Senate to consider the measures together.
There also remains the question of how China will respond and whether it would let ByteDance sell TikTok and, most importantly, its coveted algorithm that keeps users coming back to the app.
“As we continue to challenge this unconstitutional ban, we will continue investing and innovating to ensure TikTok remains a space where Americans of all walks of life can safely come to share their experiences, find joy, and be inspired,” Haurek said.
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