r/technology • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • Jan 15 '25

Social Media TikTok Plans Immediate US Shutdown on Sunday

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-plans-immediate-us-shutdown-153524617.html
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u/xBewm Jan 15 '25

Celebrating the government banning an app is kind of weird to me. Like I get not wanting to use the app but we shouldn’t really be psyched about the government deciding what kind of social avenues are available to us. Especially when X and Meta are allowed to continue operating how they always have been.

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u/MeltBanana Jan 15 '25

You can think tiktok is a Chinese tool used to manipulate the West (it is), you can think it's destroying our society (it is), you can think it causes brain rot (it does), and you can think it's pushing people into echo chambers and further spreading misinformation (it is)...

But if you support this ban then you cannot also say that you support the free internet, free speech, the constitution, or the free market.

The entire premise of banning a legal social media app goes against the principles America is supposedly founded upon. I don't use tiktok, I've never downloaded it, I think it's death is a net positive for society, but this ban should have no legal standing in America.