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[–] [email protected] 216 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I can't believe this is the one thing this congress has actually managed to do. We just want healthcare

[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago

I want both.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago

Healthcare!?! Who needs healthcare when Congress is giving us our god given freedom of domestic surveillance capitalism, which is the freedomist freedom that ever freedomed, you filthy communist!

So anyway, I started violating civil liberties... PEW PEW

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You'll take your overpriced medicine from your out of network pharmacy and you'll like it. At the fake markup price. And good luck getting that ultrasound, they're going to code the billing wrong so instead of it being $40 it's $1000. That's freedom talking.

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[–] [email protected] 156 points 6 months ago (93 children)

I wonder how many of these lawmakers will be invested in the company that swoops in and saves the American public?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (13 children)

For real. You know Pelosi is already investing.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If she’s investing at the same time you’re getting the information, she missed the best time to buy. She might have hedged her bets and bought early

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (18 children)

Fun fact: Congresspeople can legally inside trade, but the rest of us cannot.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Politicians should be banned from stock market. Total conflict of interest.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Eight Democrat Senators agree with you, and cosponsored a bill in September that died at introduction.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2773/all-actions-without-amendments

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Healthcare? Nah, let's fight about it for decades and never give people anything meaningful. Education? Nah, let's make our people go neck deep into debt and still fight about it for decades. Ban TikTok? Hold my bribery, you got it. Gimme 24 hours and you got it, boss.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

We can't solve real issues because then we couldn't keep the American populace overworked, sick, and unable to fight back.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Its all to get around passing a real privacy law with teeth.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 months ago (5 children)

lmao, they don't want a real privacy law, they want to have a monopoly in spying on Americans.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just as a reminder, we have been 'fighting for 15' since 2012. But when it comes to leveraging foreign companies with bans to force them to sell to US oligarchs we can move at blazing speed through the least functional congrss in recent history. There are two very different Americas depending on how much money you have.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Too bad we can't ban Meta, Twitter, and Snapchat while we're at it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

won’t happen

Where do you think the FBI gets their domestic terrorist intel from 😂

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Even though i dont think banning tiktok is a good idea purely because of the concept, those boards are funny. "Tiktok changed my life for the better"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They're also all printed, and with the same font. I'm assuming it's a stock photo, but if that's from a real protest I don't trust those protestors.who the hell gets a protest sign printed?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Its because the company literally paid shills to stump for them in person, call Congress, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Do Facebook and Twitter next.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"The Chinese oligarchs are taking over!" - US oligarchs probably

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

US oligarchs most definitely

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (6 children)

can we ban or move YouTube shorts elsewhere while we are at it?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (8 children)

This comment section is astounding.

If you think it’s good that congress passed a ban of a social media platform tied to a bill funding two foreign wars you’re either a fed or delusional.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Seriously. The real solution is comprehensive privacy protection and consumer information export controls for all companies operating within the US.

This whole thing is just going to give an American company the capability to use Tik Tok to spy on people and control information, which is barely better.

And then they'll likely sell the data to China anyway. Data brokers exist and make a fuck ton of money on us.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (18 children)

If social media apps exist to slurp up as much user info as possible, and they do, then it makes sense to be concerned about the government that they're subject to.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (19 children)

I probably shouldnt be celebrating this but I am. I fucking despise Tiktok with a passion, I hate its users, its creators, I hate the short form content trend it started and its algorithm based content delivery systems that every other app copied but worse, I hate the sexualisation of minors and peddling that content to pedos, I hate the clout chasing in general, I hate tiktok trends and "challenged". and I hate the general brainrot it has caused.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (20 children)

What are you celebrating, exactly? TikTok isn't going away, it's just going to be sold to American investors.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Will there be a TikTok dance on TikTok that covers this event?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

The Tiktok dance to end all Tiktok dances. Literally.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nooooo only I should collect data of the entire world!

They never got over Snowden.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (4 children)

They may just pull out of the US completely

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (4 children)

They'd be right to do so.

The way this got passed was criminally sleazy. And there's no reason for a foreign company to hand over its IP to some Wall Street thugs.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (11 children)

I have mixed feelings. Like I’m glad we’re funding Ukraine, angry we’re finding Israel, and mixed about TikTok. I dislike the app, but that’s no reason to ban something. I think all social media has the issues associated with it except one: a foreign country controls the algorithm. Also this is standard policy for foreign companies in China and turnabout is fair play.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It seems like a lot of people think moves like this are about actual national security like congress claims,

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So the next nine months will be TikTok pushing pro Trump propaganda 24/7, mobilising the youth against Biden, only to be forced to sell by Trump anyway because everyone who hops into bed with populists gets fucked regardless.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Weak, totalitarian strategy. If we’re worried about China taking over, becoming China is not the right way to fight that.

And pretending that forcing American ownership cuts out China’s influence is foolish.

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