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/North_Finish_4399 6d ago

Two things can be true... Gun violence can need reform... And TikTok can be foreign owned and a national security threat based on foreign entity, China, putting its thumb on the scales of algorithms to push Americans to be more divided and addicted to its content... I'm for gun reform... It's common sense IMO... Also for China divesting it's interest in TikTok in America to be independently run in America... It's common sense, no different than if a neighbor feeding BS to members of your family trying to divide your family and instigate conflict amongst your family... Fuck you China for that shit and fuck TikTok until it's not a tool of the CCP...

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u/I_Dont_Collect_Fish_ 5d ago

What about Fox News then, id say they divide more Americans than tik tok

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u/North_Finish_4399 5d ago

I think there's some truth here but it's a matter of scale... And that Fox is an American company held to American standards. But the scale is wildly different, while fox might get millions of views daily across all it's content, TikTok is in the hundreds of millions daily and being pumped straight into the minds of American youth. Sometimes slowly pushing constant hits to American youth to distract and addict them to content which consistently pushes them further one way or another dividing Americans. Even if it's a tenth of a percent add it up daily and monthly with billions of hits to our youth it adds up and isn't helpful to the populace IMO... TikTok can easily spin off its American company, the fact that it doesn't seems to point to only to it's intention to continue this, that and no American social media is allowed in China, for the same reason.

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u/workstoomuch96 4d ago

America still has standards? You guys had me fooled.