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>The law specifies that no penalties apply to users of TikTok. But app store operators and TikTok itself could face fines of $10,000 per violation per day, with an individual violation defined as “each time that a user accesses TikTok, is offered the ability to access TikTok, or is offered the ability to download TikTok.”

Sounds like a money-printing machine.



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> It sounds like people are standing up to psychological manipulation

99% of the sound is clearly people standing up to defend Facebook's interests against China.

Nothing about psychological manipulation here.


Then ban the psychological manipulation. Not one company. And good luck defining that term legally without running afoul of the constitution.


Why not advocate for general phone privacy laws? Why can't apps that require geo data use location then discard it? Why can't users decide?

Because these laws don't care about privacy if American companies and government reap the data.

I think TikTok is malware, and I think the reasons the US wants to ban it are self serving. Not how the RESTRICT act bans VPNs, for goodness sake.

I am highly skeptical of government making a coherent privacy bill that isn't a backdoor to more domestic surveillance.


No. Although I'm a Texan, it'll probably happen anyway if it hasn't already and my vote doesn't matter. I don't want the government deciding what software I'm allowed to use and what forms of speech and entertainment I'm allowed to expose myself to.

And I notice none of these conservatives are talking about banning Twitter anymore - which is far more psychologically manipulative than TikTok - now that one of their own has taken it over to push as much right-wing propaganda on it as possible, just to hassle the "woke hivemind."

I'm fine with app stores making the decision on their own but I prefer to not throw the entire framework of free speech out the window just because stoking fear of the "red menace" still works in the US.




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