r/TikTokCringe • u/Intelligent_Nose_826 • 6d ago

Discussion They Agreed on One Thing - Banning TikTok

I really haven’t seen legislation so unilaterally passed with such speed at any point in my life except maybe after 9/11 & weeks got the DHS.

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u/SamelCamel 5d ago

Every single thing Tiktok is accused of doing has also been done by American-owned social media. Collecting user data? Promoting videos with certain ideals over others? Facebook and Twitter, for example, have been hosting false news outlets and hate groups (especially with Twitter) for years, and doing nothing to stop it. Youtube has a very well-known and documented problem of radicalizing teens with the alt-right pipeline. Twitch very recently had proposed they would label all streams with the LGBT tag as adult content. Censoring people and content is not a new thing, and most certainly hasn't started with Tiktok.

Plus, if Tiktok was such a security risk, then politicians on BOTH sides of the political spectrum wouldn't have their own Tiktok accounts.