that being the case, doesn’t that provide more merit to tiktok being a data mining operation that China uses against American interests?

how dare you bring an enlightened perspective into the Chinese brain rot on this platform! /s

China is socialist like 1940 Germany was socialist.

can’t really explain those camps away, can they…

this is now a pervert meme thread!

I’ve got some Ariat jeans that are tough.

if they didn’t want to feel threatened then they shouldn’t run their businesses so provocatively.

Blackcock and BJ Hornan!

I’ve been “on call” for over a decade.

If I go anywhere more than walking distance I take a laptop.

yeah it’s shitty, but other than the CEO I’ll be the last person to lose my job.

just pointing out your self-righteous response of “things change” can be equally applied to tiktok getting banned.

if you don’t like it then don’t be so indignant.

oy what a oysshteler!

you clearly aren’t taking this discussion seriously or you’re acting in bad faith.

you continue to pound the same useless points again and again with little to no change.

I can only assume that your intent is this and that you’re simply trying to “muddy the water”.

I’m disappointed that you can’t even hold up your argument without repeating yourself like a broken record because you don’t even believe in your own message.

literally the only new angle you have taken is a “pro-palestinian” one, which to be frank tells me all I need to know about you and your goals.

sound advice!

TikTok is banned in the US.

things change, man.

Hardly a strawman! We have a major social media company in the US, that is controlled by a foreigner, for their own, and for foreign interests, and impacting our elections with measureable results.

are you even taking this seriously? did you not even comprehend what I said or are you just blindly responding hoping for a “gotcha”?

So, obviously, this move wasn’t done to prevent such a thing from happening, just to prevent certain countries from doing it.

not obvious, and just because you say it with more conviction doesn’t make it true.

Our current admin has done nothing to stop it, and therefore allowing it.

by that logic, then you’re just as guilty for allowing them to do nothing. so what gives you the right to complaint about it if you haven’t done anything to stop them?

Why are all the US Gov accounts STILL on Twitter?

there are so many reasons why but you’re just too emotional and inexperienced to see them, but I’ll point out a couple just so you can see how absurd you’re being.

• government moves slow, it takes years to move a major communications component
• red tape slows the process down even more, budgetary concerns, compliance requirements, contractual obligations
• lack of existing choices that have the same scope of reach to Americans
• popularity of the platform for Americans

my advice, sit down and listen before you go off half cocked.

You actually tricked yourself into believing this isn’t all about shutting down competition to American companies or stopping people’s (especially young people’s) power to disseminate even remotely left leaning views that could gain traction and threaten the oligarchs.

I didn’t though. and choosing an app to post memes is not a “power to disseminate”. that’s just childish to believe.

I mean even the politicians who back this bill state as much, so I’m not sure why you think this is about national defense. American citizens are just under as much threat as before, but now they have one less way to express themselves. Ain’t that great. /s

lies unless you can prove they stated that in an official capacity, disingenuous at best. Americans have the same amount of ways to express themselves today as they will tomorrow.

you honestly believe that an app will aid you in expressing yourself more? now who’s tricking themselves? be it an app that’s federated, Chinese, corporate, etc; you will never express yourself more than when you do it yourself. all these “apps” are distractions that bring much hand wringing and gnashing of teeth that force you into a little box so you can pretend you made a difference. social media apps are the “thoughts and prayers” of the 21st century.

so please forgive me for not takings your musings on one media platform over another seriously.

Thats just not true, otherwise we wouldn’t be welcoming a South African who illegally immigrated to the US and has some serious international conflicts-of-interests with US interests control a major social media platform.

strawman gonna strawman.

I didn’t vote for him. did you?

you act like it’s the current administration that let’s Elon do whatever he does, but it’s the incoming administration (Trump) that is allowing that.

not to mention I get IBS levels of GI pain now if I eat McD, so naturally I don’t anymore.

isn’t this giant sack of shit laying off like 1000 employees?

you think I said it to be scary?

no. I didn’t say it to be scary. I said it because it’s the only way to identify platform manipulation.

like users that flip from one extreme to the other from comment to comment…

one second they say nobody cares about privacy and the next time they bemoan how the oligarchy owns us and we can’t stop it(a clear cry for help if I ever heard one).

I want to track users like that so we can have a clearer understanding of who is abusing the platform.

man, keep these hits coming!

I’m building a database of y’all that keep trying to say “both sides are bad” just to track what your other opinions are over time.

don’t worry, I’ll keep the data on a server outside the US so you’ll feel safer.