Drew HarwellMar 7, 2023

New: Senators are taking aim at TikTok, which 100 million people in the U.S. use for free expression, based on speculative "concerns" over how the Chinese government could misuse it:

We want to use “all instruments of American power and American policy to address the Chinese Communist Party challenge,” including “our commitment to liberty"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/07/tiktok-ban-senate-proposal/

New Senate bill would give Commerce a more direct route to ban TikTok

The bill marks the federal government’s latest attempt to resolve a standoff with TikTok, the wildly popular short-video app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.

The Washington Post
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@drewharwell as far as I am aware, TikTok never actually committed sedition or attempted to overthrow the US government, though there are apparently some elected representatives in Congress who take their talking points directly from the Global Times and other Chinese propaganda outlets. Maybe the appropriate response is to ban seditious assholes from serving their propaganda masters in Congress and in state legislatures. 🤔
Mar 8, 2023 at 6:27pmWeb