It's theft. Trump's rule of law.

So much for freedom of speech

Why not ban Facebook and Twitter/X for inciting and promoting violence with their obvious right-wing extremist pro-domestic terrorism bias? Social media content and posts should be forced to state ideology/political biases BEFORE being allowed on the social media as part of the posting process.

Tik, Tok, or Tic, Toc. For the US, time is running out.

It's far past time to admit that our elected Congress doesn't have the technical knowhow to make decisions like this Don't even get me started on the corrupt/should be retired justices.

Two rulings against Trump from the court that is supposedly beholden to him.

I believe preventing monopolies is a good thing. I doubt tiktok is spying more on people than other social media. And I believe social media can have advantages as should be obvious for all of us here on bluesky. I'd love to see age-gating all social media similar to Australia did it already.

Fatso with a sign, find something to do!!!

I don't care about TikTok but I find it utterly laughable that THIS is what they deem a nation security threat and not ..... you know .... the shitstain that tried to overthrow democracy and had fake electors and Mike pence was the only thing that ultimately foiled his plot. And then JD Vance said

he won't do what Mike pence did and if that happened again. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 Literally blatantly told America fuck you and your elections and democracy and both trumpers and the courts were like "no biggy 👍👍". And then there's the whole REAL national security risk of what trump did with our classified docs.

He literally is on tape talking about them, some Australian said trump told him about our nuc subs, I think he talked to Chris rock even, as well as all the access to foreigners his maralargo provided and access to where the docs were as well as a copy machine and trumps refusal for a year to the

FBI to return them and then cried like a spoiled toddler incessantly that HE WAS THE VICTIM and HOW DARE THE FBI ENTER HIS PROPERTY. But TikTok is the real threat lmao. Man our country is fucked and we no longer have a justice system. What a joke.

The Fascists can’t control it so it must go

So, in China you can’t use Google or YouTube, and in America you won’t be able to use Tik Tok. Both are censorship by government entities. Free speech advocates must be going bonkers.

All to protect Israel

By these rules shouldn’t Fox News be banned too? A foreign nationalist owns it, xitter too.

Cool 🙄 lets ban one app but leave temu & Shien right? They just don’t like that TikTok has become a better way to share information and rally people together on causes they would rather sweep under the rug. You wanna blame social media for problems with your kids well be a better parent to your kids

Remember Dems, it wasn’t just GOP who voted for the ban. Pelosi, Jeffries, Lieu, Schiff…and so on. Never vote for these snakes again. We all know why they did it.

It was always difficult to argue that the government can impose sanctions on Cuba or NK and prevent them from conducting business in the U.S., but does not have the authority to do the same with a Chinese entity.

I’m a registered Dem, former republican. Both sides needs to be reformed and cleaned of the dead weight that has done nothing but profit for themselves.

Agreed

They did it because China uses it to spy.

Oh no! China is gonna know I like cat videos! Think of the damage!

This 👆. China uses the platform to collect information on it's users and then uses that information to spread propaganda to susceptible citizens. YouTube does the same thing but China is particularly insidious.

It seems like TikTok's fate hangs in the balance! It's fascinating how technology and law intersect—who knew our dance moves could spark such a hefty legal debate? Let's see if the Court has some moves of its own.

Keeping Americans healthy without burdensome debt is a national security; yet, we waste valuable time banning TikTok over nonsense because it's a Chinese company made it... grossly hypocritical, isn't it?

Good. Now lets move on to the social media companies here on American soil that we should ban.

I guess you're not a fan of free speech.

I'm not a fan of the detriments social media has on children's mental health, the divisive and hostile environments they create, nor the billionaires whom mine our data for personal use to sell products and services to us. It's not about "free speech" to me. It's everything else.

These are mostly concerns that are not legal. Don't let your children on social media. Don't use social media you think is divisive. Pass a law that says they can't mine data.

Australia passed a law to ban under 16s from many social media sites. Meta just dropped their moderation policies. The Republican super majority will not vote against these billionaires that fill their own coffers.

Florida just passed a similar law. I wonder if Florida is Republican or Democrat 🤔

So you believe the federal Government is going to pass laws like this to protect children and harmful speech? I’m confused if you’re for harmful speech and proven detriments to mental health in the name of free speech or what.

I think your idea that Republicans won't pass such a law is ill-informed. An age restriction is not the same as a ban, which is what you were originally calling for.

Frankly, I’m fine with a ban too. I’ve seen far more negative come from the rise of social media than positive. Unless and until the billionaire owners and their companies are kept in check, they control all of us who use their platforms.

You know it's possible to stop using social media if you don't feel like being "controlled."

Is this better dummy dum dum?

You ok bud?

I’m fine, you’re dumb. You cant read or form a coherent argument, just like Neck Vagina.

You mean when you made an argument about foreign governments in response to a comment about American companies?

lol moron

As the court pointed out, this isn’t a free speech issue. It’s a foreign entity having information on our population and using it for nefarious purposes issue. Read the brief, moron.

She's talking about banning American companies. Read the comment I was responding to.

An argument should be made that American companies are using our data for nefarious reasons too, but I guess we'll agree to disagree yet again.

Tiktok was actively used by a hostile foreign govt to spy, it’s quite a different problem.

In what ways and what were they spying on via TikTok? How long people scrolled dog videos? User emails and ages? Genuinely, I’m confused at what they gain from TikTok and the ways they could gain government information.

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Meta and X can do those same things. Ever read their new ToS?

Yeah and US can send people to jail if they sold user data to fund Chinese tracking algorithms. Can't do that with bytedance.

Well we know that wouldn't happen. Zuckerberg is a free man with new chains and a perm to prove it.

Should we release all robbers because one robber got away with it?

Good. Now do Facebook and Twitter/X.

curious how tiktok abusing data is any different from meta, google, and musk doing the same thing

As a matter of law, there are sufficient national security concerns that it would appear that the rights of Tik Tok are subordinate.

Instead of banning TikTok, they should be banning Fox News which has done far more harm to people.

Will they rule immediately or wait 8 months like they did for Trump?

Is there anyway you can stop interviewing celebrities from LA? Can you not find normal people. For the 2012 election, BBC wanted to hear about the election, they found me a nobody school teacher in Illinois and came all the way here to interview me. Guess what those celebrities are going to be fine.

We cannot let China, who is actively hacking into our communications systems, any further access to our communications infrastructure. Ban TikTok, ban the sale of Chinese, Russian, or other declared enemy communications equipment, and start cutting back on Chinese diplomatic personnel.

I will eat red hot chilli peppers if they actually uphold the Tick Tock ban. MAGA wants it bad, and we know how much bro love there is for them in the USSC.

Any American criminal now knows what to do before getting sentenced. Just run for President and win. You could get away with anything!!!

Hopefully it's not about Trump or all the tick tock users is about what China is using it for

A threat to national security President Convict wants to keep TikTok threats Americans because it helped get him elected..

I'm still waiting on my class action lawsuit check from Facebook for selling my data but we are forcing out it's only competition for short form video....sounds very fair and logical....

Trump is also a National Security Risk. Any possibility that he can be banned along with Tik Tok?

Good get rid of that Spyware platform

We can’t vote our way out of this because our owners have wealth we literally can’t comprehend, and all of that wealth is legally ’free speech.’ The only option is the type of protest that results in mass arrests and having police shoot at you. The good news? Inmates are guaranteed free healthcare.

I'm against banning Tik-Tok

Many Americans want to buy it

But Trump told them to wait on him to decide first. 2 for 2 loss in a week for him.

Now American billionaires can sell them the data instead.

Like a dying sun, the only superpower in the world is entering it's Red Giant phase. It'd be interesting to see how it's White Dwarf stage turns out, but I will probably not be around.

Dang, people will have to twerk on YouTube shorts now. What a shame

just wait until Trump posts about it.

honesty don’t really care. it’ll force them to sell so it doesn’t really matter