Trump says he'll act to ban TikTok in US as soon as Saturday

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[–][deleted] 13 insightful - 6 fun13 insightful - 5 fun14 insightful - 6 fun -  (12 children)

Ban every company based in Communist China or that has ties with the CCP, and seize their shares in American companies. Just banning TikTok won't be enough. We're losing the culture war, and it's about time we changed that. Communism has no place on American soil!

[–]Drewski 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I'm no fan of Communism, but oppressive censorship and cronyism is not the way to combat it.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There's big difference between censorship and banning foreign investment.

Also, isn't cronyism just a word libertarians use to describe any time the government does anything?

[–]Drewski 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Banning an app or website for private citizens is censorship. Something China does regularly, but not something a free society should be engaging in.

Cronyism in a political context is generally buying and selling favors, regardless of qualifications. Us libertarians tend to use it a lot, because it describes the current state of capitalism in America.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's censorship when you ban it to prevent the flow of information. The reason the US is banning TikTok is not to censor the users of the app (have you even seen anything remotely intelligent on TikTok?), but rather to strengthen national security, as China is using the app to collect data about US citizens and feed them Communist propaganda. Banning TikTok (and other Chinese apps) will push people towards other platforms where they can more easily access and share information. The only problem is that American companies aren't much better, if better at all, but at least they aren't controlled by a foreign government.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

have you even seen anything remotely intelligent on TikTok?

Yes I have. It has everything to do with what you "like" and who you follow. And no one had any problem with Tik Tok until it started to get political. The left tried to counter with leftist propaganda vids but was absolutely destroyed in the comment section.

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They are but two tools, of many

[–]Redditistrash 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Reddit is partially owned by china. Wouldnt mind seeing that blow up for good.

[–]teelo 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

But where will all the normies go!!

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

How about banning censorship and information gathering, both private and public?

[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is exactly the solution if they were actually concerned about China data mining 12 year olds.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm all for that.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This is not about Communism or China. This is about protecting Jewish dominance of media. You can't name one singe platform that is a fraction as popular with kids as tik tok (the main target demographic for propaganda) that isn't controlled by Jews.

inb4 oy vey, the antisemitism!

[–]MrZak 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

fucking do it then, trump has said he'd gonna do a lot of shit... I want to see him actually do it.

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

He has kept almost all of his promises, look it up

[–]Drewski 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

I don't use TikTok for privacy and security reasons, and I don't recommend anyone else do so either. That said, Trump has no authority to tell private citizens what apps or sites they can use on their personal devices, and anyone cheering for this kind of censorship should give some serious thought to how that sort of control could be used to suppress other sources of information.

[–]Anatolia 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

my issue with it is that its an app grooming women for porn/exploitation

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

But these women post the content, hoping for attention..

[–]Anatolia 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

because humans are easy to program to do stupid shit, don't blame the uneducated for satan's machinations

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Satan is primitive desert-people cope

[–]teelo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If he thinks hes not going to be reelected, theres nothing stopping him ordering his troops to march into the ISPs and force them to block it. The only place that can stop him is the Supreme Court or Impeachment, and by the time a case gets heard its too late, and will be a different presidents mess to clean up.

[–]Crad 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well if they have a solid proof that US safety is compromised due to tiktok app, I'd say it's smart to ban it here, at least temporarily? Huawei for example is long gone from American soil. But it might be fear mongering too, we dont have an evidence.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

He should ban twatter for pure self-care-interest. Obviously he can't handle all the notifications it sends to him. He developed a serious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_addiction . He was an attention whore even before that, but a bad one.

And the Chinese do whatever the Chinese wanna do behind their big wall while most tenderly and slowly fucking the US-American economy in its stinkhole.

He simply can't accept this fact, i suppose.

Better even: What's next ? Will he forbid the whole internet for his citizens except for the constant stream of bs from his twatter? Will he finally become the tzar, he seriously believes, he is ? Like this guy : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero ?

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    [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Less than you, obviously.

    [–]joewest1313 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    BUAHAHAHAHAHA

    [–]konoplya 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

    i hope he doesn't. there's a shit ton of right wingers on tik tok

    [–]Wahwah 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    There are plenty of home grown and worthy alternatives where they can migrate to.

    [–]konoplya 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    no there aren't actually. nothing like tiktok on the market right now.

    [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    do twatter next!

    [–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    But where will I get my 'big booty teens dancing' video content from?

    [–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    Tik for tak

    [–]teelo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I'm surprised he isn't going to ban Twitter for deleting his tweets.

    [–]ctvzbuxr 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I'm not a fan of this. I support Trump over his competition, but this will be seen by the general population as an act of censorship. And honestly, I can't help but agree. This is not the way.