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How the House revived the TikTok ban bill before most of us noticed (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Interesting to note here: getting preteens to confusedly call Congress with threats of self harm and questions like "what is Congress" with a push notification is not the best plan

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (12 children)

I've never used TikTok and probably never will, but I still don't think it's the government's job to decide what apps I'm allowed to use and what not. Educate people about the dangers of social media and if that doesn't work then it's out of your hands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do you also think the same about alcohol, tobacco, drugs and gambling?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

3/4 of those are literally allowed in the United States and most of the rest of the world (in fact the US is stricter on drugs and alcohol than a lot of it's peer nations.) And nobody's forcing Smirnoff to sell to AB InBev.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You seem to be missing the point.

in fact the US is stricter on drugs and alcohol than a lot of it's peer nations

This is exactly why I posted my comment: Those things are regulated since they have age restrictions/bans/taxes(tarrifs?). TikTok doesn't have any of those. It's not like you can tax TikTok use like you can tax alcohol use so I don't understand your comparison with Smirnoff.