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>TikTok is not any more harmful than US-based social media https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-calls-congress.html https://www.nytimes.com
by DiscourseFan 3y ago
>TikTok is not any more harmful than US-based social media
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-calls-congress.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-cal...
>When many users opened the popular app on Thursday, the company greeted them with a message to oppose the legislation, prompting a flood of phone calls to several Capitol Hill offices.
“Stop a TikTok shutdown,” the message on the app read. It included a button for people to call their representatives, saying: “Let Congress know what TikTok means to you and tell them to vote NO.”
>Some users said on X that they were unable to use the app before placing the call.
It is essentially malware with the capability to directly affect electoral politics. It is a necessity that it is banned as soon as possible.
- yazzku 3y ago> It is essentially malware with the capability to directly affect electoral politics. It is a necessity that it is banned as soon as possible. Read my first point above. You are misguided on this issue.
- DiscourseFan 3y agoI agree with your point, except insofar as TikTok is not more harmful than other social media. That is demonstrably false.
- lapsed_pacifist 3y agoPlease demonstrate, then.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Please demonstrate, then It starts and ends with whether you trust the CCP. We cannot control the CCP. (We legally can control American social media companies.) If you think the CCP is innocuous, this bill won't make sense. If you think they're an adversary, this bill is obvious.
- yazzku 3y agoAnd you're going to prove it to us, right? With a link to the New York Times?
- DiscourseFan 3y agoPerhaps you'd prefer the South China Morning Post, which had 0 mentions of this incident in its article[0], although to be fair that paper is owned by the Alibaba group, whose CEO magically disappeared for months one time for speaking out against Xi. It's a good thing we have numerous other sources on the matter[1][2][3]. But I suppose they're all owned by western corporations, so who can we trust? I myself wouldn't trust the paper that casually omitted a crucial detail about the controversy. [0]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-chief-tell-us-congress-093000314.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-chief-tell-us-congress... [1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/krishnamoorthi-gallagher-tiktok-bill-calls-children/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/krishnamoorthi-gallagher-tiktok... [2]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/07/tiktok-users-protest-congress-potential-ban https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/07/tiktok-us... [3]https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/tiktok-ban-congress-phone-calls https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/tiktok-ban-congress-phone-c...
- Karunamon 3y agoBecause of their ability to send a push message to their users, urging them to express disapproval of some bill that threatens their existence?
- DiscourseFan 3y agoA push message that a number of users reported they couldn't close out until they'd dialed the number, an error which ByteDance only fixed well after the damage had already been done.
- akerl_ 3y agoI seem to recall several instances where US-based social media platforms tried to motivate users to rally against legislation they found problematic.
- yazzku 3y agoHey, but if the New York Times says otherwise...
- hooverd 3y agoLet's do Reddit next!