TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell

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It seems like a lot of people think moves like this are about actual national security like congress claims,

It blows my fuckin mind now damn stupid the average American is

I mean to an extent it is. America is mad China has a platform that's popular with Americans that they can't control. The effects of this were shown with the fact that America couldn't control the narrative over the Israel-Palestine issue after October 7th. So to increase national security and try to gain back the control they had they're getting rid of TikTok.

Narrative control != National Security in a Democracy.

I agree that the government attempting to have this kind of control in a democracy is wrong but it still does provide national security. Security is good but can be taken too far and in all honestly we've been very far past what's too far for a while with stuff like the Patriot act.