Nah. I was wrong to come here though. Lemmy isn’t the next step forward. It’s the retirement site for people that got mad at reddit lmao.

Yet you celebrate when the government illegally passes legislation targeting only one company to the benefit of meta and YouTube lmao. Hypocrit.

Yeah, definitely a boomer in vibes if not in age. Sorry. Everything you said is basically wrong. You’re just repeating what others have said without putting a single bit of effort into confirming anything but your own bias.

Ethical reasons lmao. You all just laughed while our government illegally targeted one company with legislation to get rid of competition for big corporations like meta/google. Don’t pretend to be doing any of this for any kind of moral high ground when you can’t even be bothered to look into something before arguing for it. You’re just useful tools happily guzzling their bs excuse of it being for our security because that’s what you want to believe.

One of the guys that wrote the bill invests heavily in meta and invested even more in March after putting forward the new bill that recently passed to ban it… But I’m sure that’s TOTALLY just a coincidence lmao. Mike McCaul. Not to mention google’s potential benefit for getting rid of a major competitor but they’d never meddle with our government right?

A boomer is someone that’s out of touch and hateful/distrustful of things they don’t understand. It’s a mentality. If you weren’t a boomer you’d know that

I think it’s sad that you’re all just ok with this kind of blatant government overreach to protect corporate pockets tbh. You just go along with the disinformation thing without an ounce of critical thought because you didn’t like the app lol. I guess I just expected better of this community but I was wrong. I think lemmy just got the reddit boomers that are in denial about being boomers. It seems like it’s just an alternative retirement site to facebook for y’all. So have fun with that I guess.

Of course you do. You’re all just the old man yelling at cloud meme and it’s honestly sad.

Nah, pretty sure it’s because so many religious people are just kinda crazy

Of course. But I keep it to myself if it’s not actually hurting me. It seems so senseless to make someone ashamed of something like that.

Are you actually an adult?

I’m not telling you old man

Lmao polls. Ok. We’ll just ignore the fact that the large public outcry the last two hearings stalled the proceedings forcing them to shove it through with another bill I guess.

It’s literally illegal to make legislation targeting a single company. If you don’t see a problem with them breaking their own laws to please their corporate overlords then I don’t know what else I can tell you.

My favorite part about replies like yours is how willing you are to stoop to the same level of China in retaliation. Even if it impacts millions of US citizens. But that doesn’t matter to you because you don’t like or use the app so what do you care right? Not to even mention the people that make a living through it.

And he’s said that companies can’t sell property like the TikTok algorithm to other countries. I highly doubt he’ll suddenly have a change of heart now. I honestly hope he doesn’t because the US shouldn’t be making legislation against its own citizens wishes just to fuck with China in the first place.

Of course you didn’t answer the question. I knew you wouldn’t.

What misinformation is it full of? You surely must know if you’re confidently making this claim.

Honestly? You have clearly never used it. The fact that you’re just parroting what you’ve heard from others brainlessly is what’s truly cringy here. Absolutely low IQ behavior. Not worth my time.

They can’t really have a contingency because they won’t sell. They can’t due to the laws there anyway. It’s been plainly stated countless times. We’ll see how it goes but regardless the US gov is playing dirty here under the guise of protecting our security. The people clearly said no the first two times and they shoved it through anyway. I don’t see how people don’t find that at least a little alarming

You just made my point and you don’t even realize it lmao

The apps themselves are wildly different. You think it’s a coincidence that this got forced through right before elections? Our gov doesn’t like that they can’t control the narrative there. They also really don’t like how upset tiktok makes the US corporations that fill their pockets. How is that comparable? Unless you think the ban is for security like they’re claiming, which is laughable, because it’s so obviously not.

Facebook literally conducted “social experiments” on like a million of their users and didn’t even get a slap on the wrist. What you’re saying isn’t even true but if it was so what? Another country profits off of stealing my data instead of the US? What has the US ever given me for my data? My taxes already help.fund genocides and I don’t get any say in any of it so fuck it.

Because it has absolutely nothing to do with any of that and everything to do with US corporations wanting our data and eyeballs back. If you think otherwise you’re just too easily manipulated.

If that’s what you guys see on TikTok then that’s what you interact with and enjoy watching so you’re just kinda telling on yourselves lmao