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US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My prediction is coming true: https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/10ofony/anything_to_protect_the_youth/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I watched that commercial - I guess banning TikTok is gonna work, huh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

What's more likely to work is something else will appear and distract the gnat-like attention span of our status-obsessed species, and we can go back to tik tok being the sound your you hear at night when you visit your boomer relatives and try to sleep in the guest bedroom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

For the commercial yeah, real life is more of a no.