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Re:US court to hear challenges to potential TikTok ban in Se... by pbiggar on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @01:54PM (#40503475)
The claim that this is is about national security is absurd. It's about Palestine, and Blinken and Romney admitted as much.

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/05/06/senato...

> Romney replied, "Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians, relative to other social media sites — it's overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts."

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Re:US court to hear challenges to potential TikTok ban in Se... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @01:57PM (#40503526)
Practically everything passed by the Congress requires a coalition. That means single attributions are rarely correct. The protests added a coalition partner to the team, but that was marginal and far from the bulk of electeds’ (and voters’) concerns. First and foremost, this is and has been for a few years now about China.
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Re:US court to hear challenges to potential TikTok ban in Se... by ozzzy1 on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @02:07PM (#40503634)
That coalition is looking like Politicians wanting that juicy AIPAC money
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Re:US court to hear challenges to potential TikTok ban in Se... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @02:14PM (#40503729)
> coalition is looking like Politicians wanting that juicy AIPAC money

They want those voters. Again, most people who called their electeds and have a voting record seemed to mention China, at least in New York, Arizona, Wyoming and California, where I know some of the folks.

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Re:US court to hear challenges to potential TikTok ban in Se... by masfrost on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @09:06PM (#40507206)
Single attributions are rarely correct until it's about Israel/Palestine. You might need to immerse yourself more in the issue before you start noticing these things.
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