Government censorship will cause TikTok’s services in the US to shut down, which will result in most users moving to another social media platform.
I think most people already use multiple platforms, so the only difference will be the time they put into their new main social media.
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How is the law unconstitutional?
Restrict first amendment rights.
The right for a business to operate is not protected by the first amendment, though.
I could use that argument to stop the government from closing/dismantling any physical space because I might use their walls to express my first amendment rights. But the argument just doesn’t hold up.
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But again, you can make that argument about any platform or medium where speech can be posted or displayed. If the department of public health condemns a local movie theater where I host indie movie screenings, that is not a violation of my first amendment rights because they are not prohibiting my ability to make or share content, they are simply removing the space it is currently shared. If that comes out to the same effect for some people who are all-in on TikTok to the exclusion of any other short-form video sharing service, sure, maybe there are grievances. But that still ends up being a self-imposition made by the individual at the end of the day.
Not to mention, the US government is not trying to close down TikTok. They are prohibiting the owners of TikTok from doing business in the US. The company itself would be the one to make the decision to close the service rather than sell it off, so unless the fed is going to force a private business to keep itself open to placate the masses, it’s a decision made by a private company outside of any constitutional law.
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It’s not the right of the business, it’s the right of US citizens to consume media and information from any source they please. The Govt has no right to say “You can’t read that newspaper” or “You can’t listen to that speaker”, so they have no right to say “You can’t get information through this app”. The first amendment isn’t just about the right to speak, it’s also about the right to listen and research especially the stuff the government doesn’t want you to know about.
I think the argument would be that if money is freedom of speech then so should surveillance capitalism
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Because its not for sale
Wouldn’t be surprised if there was an exceptionally well funded US startup that makes a debut before TikTok is blocked if they don’t sell. TikTok has to weigh the possibility that they can’t compete if they don’t exist.
I doubt it. USA is just one one country, although large. Tik Tok will do fine without it.
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Not when there are national politics involved
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They refused to entertain offers. 1T dollars seems mighty, but TikTok is a multi-year if not multi-decade data collection hub. That data is on the youth of America and their trajectories.
That’s priceless to the power hungry. It’s not just money, it’s control.
That’s priceless to the power hungry. It’s not just money, it’s control.
that’s why their banning it; they can’t control it in the way they want
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Who cares. Imagine what will happen to those freed from this mental prison
What usa tik tok creators?
YouTube shorts are already a thing.
Once they get an algorithm that isn’t absolute shit, bam we’ll be good
I’m excited to find out!
I imagine all the clocks in their houses will just stop. Stop tick. Stop tock.
Albeit I don’t know what the duck TikTok is. Just guessing.
In case you’re serious, a video-centric social media. It focuses on short vertical videos. Naturally, they’re generally too short to have much useful information, so it’s mostly dumb addictive content, or straight up misinformation. It’s meant to feel like you’re not wasting time while you definitely are. “I am not spending 15 minutes to watch a normal video, I just watched a few (maybe 50) short (around 1 minute) videos.”
It’s like YouTube shorts.
There won’t be a ban. TikTok will probably end up making a U.S. only version that will satisfy congress.
The data will be sold to a 3rd party broker who will then keep sending it to China, so nothing will change in the end.
I don’t think this is correct.
They wont reveal their code and leaders in the US are too uncomfortable. With a conservative court, a ban will be not found unconstitutional.
The revealed their code to a US company already: Oracle.
They just don’t like that the youth use it to see what’s happening in other parts of the world, like Palestine. They want to be able to keep the US populace within their propaganda bubble, in the state we were in when we didn’t know about things like the Irgun or The Great March of Return.
You may be right.
There are no ‘leaders’ in the US offices of tik toc
A few more middle men get filthy rich.
Nobody in Lemmy cares until they come for Lemmy I guess
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If you base your livelihood on a platform owned by a private company, you’re not really justified if you complain about it being changed or blocked.
Lemmy users aren’t making money from it, so your argument is irrelevant.
They’ll move to TokTik by DanceByte by the week’s end.
They will cease to exist
