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[–] kittenroar@beehaw.org 2 points 2 hours ago

A lot of people who vote Democratic; Democratic politicians were overwhelmingly in favor of the TikTok ban because the ADL, which is another mouthpiece for Israeli interests, said tiktok is bad for Israel.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 8 points 4 hours ago

Most of TikTok's privacy issues could be applied to Twitter or Facebook.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 12 points 7 hours ago

Depends on which Trump we're talking about.

In 2020, the United States government announced that it was considering banning the Chinese social media platform TikTok upon a request from Donald Trump, the president of the United States, who viewed the app as a national security threat.