Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it
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If I was Biden and I wanted to make sure absolutely nobody under 35 voted for me, first thing I'd do is genocide.

If that didn't work, then I'd restart student loans.

If that didn't work, I'd ban Tiktok.

Edit: To the people downvoting me: Do you think giving Israel the bombs they use to carry out genocide, restarting student loans, and banning tiktok helps Biden's reelection chances?

Are you republicans who don't want him to change course? Are you democrats perpetually stuck in 2016, blaming voters rather than asking "What policies caused us to lose? What changes do we need to make to win?"

It really doesn’t seem like they want to win

They are the second bit. They've been going hard on saying anyone who won't vote for Biden is actually a bigot who loves Trump and wants a domestic genocide.

noooo not the cringe app! everything but the cringe app

yes, ban on tiktok is a net positive

It's not even a ban, though. TikTok will just be owned by a US company instead of a Singaporean owned company. Literally nothing else will change, I hate to break it to you - cringe app will still be used by millions.

ByteDance has said they won't sell, and the US audience is <15% of their monthly userbase.

First they came for TikTok..

tiktokers aren't a persecuted ethnic minority

Were socialists a persecuted ethnic minority?

Already they are planning to hinder open hardware (RISK-V) as it could help China and will certainly attack foss software as well.

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