Comment by gummyworm21_ on 15/01/2025 at 16:07 UTC

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View submission: TikTok reportedly plans ‘immediate’ Sunday shutdown in the US if it’s banned / The US federal ban will go into effect Sunday without a Supreme Court intervention.

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The short video format still exists on Instagram and YouTube. If your issue is with social media damaging the youth then banning tiktok isn’t going to solve that. They will just go to Instagram.

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Comment by nizhaabwii at 15/01/2025 at 16:08 UTC

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Thats the real push...

Comment by home-for-good at 15/01/2025 at 17:20 UTC

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Agreed, and it existed before TikTok and stuff like Vine, Snapchat, and Music-ly

Comment by crystal_castle00 at 15/01/2025 at 18:10 UTC

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It’s a start

Comment by Left_on_Pause at 15/01/2025 at 18:09 UTC

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Kill TY and instagram short form, too. That crack is bad.

Comment by oishster at 15/01/2025 at 17:40 UTC

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Funnily enough, I think they’ve actually pivoted to using xiaohongshu, which is like china’s version of tiktok. They replaced one “Chinese spyware” app with another.