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TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban (www.npr.org)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

im baffled by the blase response by lemmy users to government overreach

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Same! It is definitively unconstitutional and the us gov just pushed it through anyway (with even supreme court backing it up?!) Shit is crazy, and yet I see a lot of 'no big loss' type comments on it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The SCOTUS decision was wild too, because it was a fucking 9-0 vote. The decision was unanimous. That’s a word that’s virtually never used to describe the SCOTUS or any kind of government vote. That unanimous decision made it perfectly clear that the government knows something we don’t, and that TikTok had them fucking terrified. My bet is on the genocide being much worse than even TikTok was showing, but TikTok was the only place you could see anything about it that didn’t have a massive “Israel is just helping them root out terrorists” spin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I wonder how much of all this is just the government realizing that social media is the next world-changing weapon.

Why dig out your nukes or your fighter jets to destroy the enemy when you can instead make them like you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

I said exactly that a few days ago. Got downvoted nicely, hope you have better luck.

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/14527149

Your comment made me feel a little more sane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't bother following the court case, what were they arguing, freedom of the press?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The law boiled down says any applications from Rushia or China are inherently a security risk and therefore can be banned no questions asked (currently they have to go app by app) which to put it simply is extremely concerning. Straight up US great firewall type shit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Not all apps, review/travel sites get a pass, and the decision is left to the president, which is a dumb way to do it.

DIVISION H-- PROTECTING AMERICANS FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARY CONTROLLED APPLICATIONS ACT

Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act

(Sec. 2) This division prohibits distributing, maintaining, updating, or providing internet hosting services for a foreign adversary controlled application (e.g., TikTok). However, the prohibition does not apply to a covered application that executes a qualified divestiture as determined by the President.

Under the division, a foreign adversary controlled application is an application directly or indirectly operated by (1) ByteDance, Ltd., TikTok, their subsidiaries, successors, related entities they control, or entities controlled by a foreign adversary country; or (2) a social media company that is controlled by a foreign adversary country and determined by the President to present a significant threat to national security. (Here, a social media company excludes any website or application primarily used to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Right? 170 million people just get censored by the government.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

170 million people

Where's that number coming from. Maybe you mean the 165 billion installs , but that's not active users and double counts people installing on multiple devices. Tik tok has 50 million dau Of those maybe 10% is actually "speaking" and creating content that the other 90% consume so around 5 million people.

And those 5 million people aren't silenced, they can still go on to one of multiple apps that provide the same service and allows them to get there message out. He'll they could come on to the fediverse and post blatant ccp propaganda and no one will do anything.