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There has been a movement against Tiktok for longer than the current iteration of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. UK, Canada, Australia, India, among others,
by givemeethekeys 3y ago
There has been a movement against Tiktok for longer than the current iteration of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
UK, Canada, Australia, India, among others, have all had some sort of a ban in place for a while.
- h0l0cube 3y ago> have all had some sort of a ban in place for a while ... exclusively on government devices.
- leosanchez 3y agoExcept India where it is blocked nation wide
- vinnyvichy 3y agoSee the following report by WSJ that says that the latest bill was initiated by the ADL: https://archive.ph/W9qJr https://archive.ph/W9qJr
- rchaud 3y agoYes, and that 'movement' went absolutely nowhere bill-wise. For the longest time in the US, the proponent of a ban was the DJT administration, which saw it as a threat to their election chances. Suddenly Congress' 500+ members come together like a bipartisan Voltron to draft, vote and pass a bill about Tiktok, matching the speed and urgency of military aid bills for foreign countries? When there is a much more domestically significant border security bill that's been stuck for months, in an election year? It doesn't add up. Congress can make a case for the military aid, it hasn't made one for TT.
- vinnyvichy 3y agoSee the following WSJ report to get a picture of how this bill passed so quickly: https://archive.ph/W9qJr https://archive.ph/W9qJr "While the ratio fluctuated, he found that at times it ran 69 to 1 in favor of videos with pro-Palestinian hashtags."