Comment by [deleted] on 15/01/2025 at 17:58 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 next move would probably be ban any social media associated with China. Which won’t be hard to justify. I also don’t know what the whole big fuss is about if we do. China blocks almost everything from the US.

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Comment by totallyrealhuman8 at 15/01/2025 at 18:21 UTC

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The fuss is a bunch of Tiktokers that’s it. I get it, American companies do the same, but what do they think they’ll accomplish by going to another Chinese company instead of YouTube or some shit.

Granted besides Reddit and Snap I don’t have any social media, I’d like to cut Reddit out as-well one day

Comment by ncat2k03 at 15/01/2025 at 22:00 UTC

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China blocks U.S. social media because the commies are afraid of the western influence. Are you saying we are afraid of the commie influence, like their lifestyles, point of views, etc?

Comment by RootinTootinHootin at 15/01/2025 at 22:56 UTC

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Yeah but not doing what China does is proof we are more free I guess. In general people don’t want to be treated the way China treats its people.

Comment by Remarkable_Command91 at 16/01/2025 at 01:14 UTC

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I’m pretty sure the verbiage in the TikTok bill paves the way for the US to effectively ban any social media owned by foreign governments.

Comment by ReturnoftheTurd at 16/01/2025 at 02:19 UTC

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The law already applies to it. The law did not ban “TikTok”. It banned foreign adversarial social media apps.