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House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid bill (www.npr.org)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't like TikTok, but I do take issue with the government deciding what is and isn't available to me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

They are not banning the content type that tiktok provides, they are banning the foreign authoritarian government control of American user information. If Bytedance Sells tiktok to a business in a non authoritarian state then they no longer care.