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holo_nexus Apr 18, 2024

House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel

A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/technology/tiktok-ban-ukraine-israel-aid.html

TikTok Bill to Be Bundled With Aid to Ukraine and Israel, House Speaker Indicates

A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.

The New York Times

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Thorny_Insight Apr 18, 2024

Package a TikTok bill along with aid for Ukraine, Israel AND Taiwan? Even lumping the aid bills together for 3 different countries is odd but the hell does TikTok now have to do with any of it? This is a weird system you guys got there.

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ZILtoid1991

They’re taking clues from Hungary. Our “child protection” (sic!) law bundled a pedophile registry (which is useless at best) alongside the censorship and de facto ban of sex education in schools, so Fidesz and Mi Hazánk (Fidesz satellite party which is a bit more honest about it being far-right) called the opposition pedo-defenders for not voting yes for it.