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At this point TikTok is impossible to ban in the west. Hundreds of millions of people love using it. If an elected official banned it, they'd create space for a
by spacebanana7 3y ago
At this point TikTok is impossible to ban in the west. Hundreds of millions of people love using it. If an elected official banned it, they'd create space for a political opponent to pick up vast numbers of votes by taking the other side on the issue.
- huytersd 3y agoPeople would forget in a month and move to other platforms.
- spacebanana7 3y ago64% of young Americans would rather give up their right to vote than give up TikTok. Picture how upset kids get when you take away their favourite video game and apply that to a group of people dozens of times larger than the NRA. That's a lot of votes to risk. [1] https://reboot-foundation.org/research/the-tiktok-challenge-curbing-social-medias-influence-on-young-minds/ https://reboot-foundation.org/research/the-tiktok-challenge-... ++ I'd be interested to see this study replicated across the entire adult voter base with breakdowns by region etc, but I'm not aware of one.
- huytersd 3y ago80% of young Americans said they planned to vote in the last election. You can draw your own conclusions from that.