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Many issues have bipartisan support, especially foreign policy. I suspect the other main reason they wanted to ban TT is that they wanted to control the narrati
by lemon_zest 2y ago
Many issues have bipartisan support, especially foreign policy. I suspect the other main reason they wanted to ban TT is that they wanted to control the narrative on certain issues, on the them being Gaza.
https://newrepublic.com/post/181327/mitt-romney-congress-ban-tiktok-israel-gaza https://newrepublic.com/post/181327/mitt-romney-congress-ban...
- accrual 2y agoYes, I agree. While data collection is an issue it feels like a red herring sometimes. I've received a wide variety of populist and anti-capitalist ideas from a wide spectrum of users on TikTok, and that feels like a greater threat to the powers that be than data collection.
- lemon_zest 2y agoIf it was solely data collection the CCP (and anyone else for that matter) would simply buy data from random data brokers. It is much easier, cheaper and legal too.