US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19

Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by 71bw on Monday December 16, 2024 @07:09AM (#42430305)

>and the American social media apparatus was jealous so lobbied to have it banned.

Yes, definitely has nothing to do with the fact the Chinese are using it to inject their propaganda and way of view into the mainstream by, for example, massively spreading lies about the Israel-Hamas debacle which, without TikTok, nobody would care about (as it should be).

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by greenie_beans on Monday December 16, 2024 @08:12AM (#42430659)

i'm not on tiktok and have never seen a tiktok about this issue but i care about it. same with a lot of my friends who are not on tiktok. same with hn god paul graham.

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by latentcall on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:20PM (#42435561)

What lies about Israel-Hamas? Pro-Palestinian support isn’t a Chinese psyop, people can see the videos coming from Gaza plainly and make up their own opinion.

I never bought the idea that the American people are super gun ho about Israel. My family are all conservative Midwest folks and they don’t see why we give them so much money when Americans at home suffer.

It’s not just the “left” that thinks this.

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