return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoSenate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing itwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square240fedilinkarrow-up1589arrow-down130cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up1559arrow-down1external-linkSenate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing itwww.theverge.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square240fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down21·8 months agonoooo not the cringe app! everything but the cringe app yes, ban on tiktok is a net positive
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 months agoDo you think banning tiktok increases or decreases Biden’s popularity?
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·8 months agoi will support whoever nukes bytedance datacentres
minus-squareAmbiguousProps@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·8 months agoIt’s not even a ban, though. TikTok will just be owned by a US company instead of a Singaporean owned company. Literally nothing else will change, I hate to break it to you - cringe app will still be used by millions.
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 months agoByteDance has said they won’t sell, and the US audience is <15% of their monthly userbase.
minus-squareAmbiguousProps@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoWe’ll see, I suppose. I’m highly doubtful at the moment.
minus-squareThorny_Insight@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down4·8 months agoFirst they came for TikTok…
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·8 months agotiktokers aren’t a persecuted ethnic minority
minus-squareWild Bill@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·8 months agothis is so funny out of context
minus-squareazuth@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months agoWere socialists a persecuted ethnic minority? Already they are planning to hinder open hardware (RISK-V) as it could help China and will certainly attack foss software as well.
minus-squareThorny_Insight@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·8 months agoI’m sure you understood my point.
noooo not the cringe app! everything but the cringe app
yes, ban on tiktok is a net positive
Do you think banning tiktok increases or decreases Biden’s popularity?
i will support whoever nukes bytedance datacentres
It’s not even a ban, though. TikTok will just be owned by a US company instead of a Singaporean owned company. Literally nothing else will change, I hate to break it to you - cringe app will still be used by millions.
ByteDance has said they won’t sell, and the US audience is <15% of their monthly userbase.
We’ll see, I suppose. I’m highly doubtful at the moment.
First they came for TikTok…
tiktokers aren’t a persecuted ethnic minority
this is so funny out of context
Were socialists a persecuted ethnic minority?
Already they are planning to hinder open hardware (RISK-V) as it could help China and will certainly attack foss software as well.
I’m sure you understood my point.