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Written by Jon Lasser is Hanging in there on 2025-01-17 at 17:02

Look, I’m not saying the Supreme Court is right about the #TikTok ban, but you can’t tell me there’s no national interest in addressing a platform where a foreign government is manipulating the topics and promoting specific opinions into the public discourse. As in Romania, the Chinese Government is putting their finger on the scale of elections and other political topics.

I’m anti-censorship, though, so what would be a better alternative to shutting them down?

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Written by 📚 natalie 📒 on 2025-01-17 at 17:06

@disappearinjon the solution provided was pretty reasonable IMO: sell to a US owner so it falls under US legal jurisdiction. Their userbase should be questioning why ByteDance/TikTok was so resistant to that.

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Written by Jon Lasser is Hanging in there on 2025-01-17 at 17:17

@paparatti but without control of the “algorithm” (using that loosely since there’s obvious interference), TikTok is probably not sufficiently viral. And it’s clear the owners won’t turn that over.

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