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[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tik Tok pushes so much toxic content towards children and teenagers it should be shut down in my opinion.

[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The can very easily apply to every single social media.

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes but unlike Facebook and other platforms, Tik Tok is aimed at and consumed by minors specifically.

[–] StevenSaus@midwest.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unlike? I think you mean they're JEALOUS of TikTok's appeal to minors...

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 0 points 11 months ago

I think people forget that Meta owns Instagram which is known to have a very young user base.

They are even currently Suing the FTC because they want to monetize minors more

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

High school nerds pay attention. This is how you can make some money and have an excuse to talk to the hot girls…by installing a vpn on their phones so they can still have their tik tok.

Get one popular girls phone set up and every girl in the school will be hitting you up within a week.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And why do you assume everyone including hot girls & popular girls aren't already capable of installing their own VPNs? Unless of course you mean the high school nerd is going to pay for our VPN service, then come on over!

[–] escaped_cruzader@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

aren’t already capable

Anyone who can read and follow directions is capable

Most people can't install a VPN, including hot or cold girls

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Most people can’t install a VPN,

My guy, do YOU know how to set up a VPN?

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

U.S. lawmakers can't force anything on foreign corporations.

If the bill passes in the House and Senate and is signed into law by President Biden, TikTok would eventually be dropped from app stores in the US if its owner doesn't sell. It also would lose access to US-based web-hosting services.

ByteDance would be banned from the U.S. market and lose it's webhosting on U.S. servers.

Also, what's with the "foreign adversary" status of China?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also, what’s with the “foreign adversary” status of China?

China is attacking us by having a bigger economy

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lol yea. They also maintain control over their big corpos and that must be threatening to the 9 corporations in a trench coat that the U.S. calls a government. Still, the world doesn't need any more adversarial relationships, thank you very much U.S.A.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Unironically, so much of US/China hostility boils down to corporate market share

[–] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So NSA backdoors are mandatory but Chinese ones are bad.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

The former is more pressing than the latter.