Posted on 03/08/2024 10:41:31 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
House Republican leadership is moving forward with a vote on a bipartisan bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok — or face a ban — next Wednesday, despite former President Donald Trump’s public opposition to the measure.
House Republican leaders huddled Friday morning to confirm the House would move forward on the TikTok bill with plans to bring it to the House floor under suspension, a maneuver that speeds the process and limits amendments to bills that can win a two-thirds majority vote, according to two sources familiar with the plans.
The legislation from Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis. and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., the leaders of the House Select Committee on China, would force Beijing-based ByteDance to sell off TikTok within 180 days or otherwise would effectively ban the app in the U.S. by penalizing app stores that host it.
(Excerpt) Read more at semafor.com ...
https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/24/23467181/difference-between-tik-tok-in-china-and-the-us/
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2023/03/24/douyin-tiktok-comparison-wang-pkg-pt-intl-vpx.cnn
Hah, that is best you got. Typical of a low IQ zeeper.
Buzz off.
TikTok needs to be eliminated it serves no useful purpose for America only China is a winner.
And the highest bidder will allow them to stay around.
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You’re just being an anti-Trump ass like always. If Trump said the sky was blue, you’d say he is lying. That’s just the way you POSs roll.
The question that is why has Trump started changing his tune on this issue?
OMG, let's ban it. And while we are at it, we need to ban AM and FM RADIO. Then there is X and FACEBOOK and FREE REPUBLIC. Since the INTERNET provides EASY access to an unlimited amount of pornography in every category imaginable (along with some unimaginable) we need to BAN THE WHOLE INTERNET. BAN IT ALL.
OR.... we could face up to the real problem and deal with the fact our own government is using TOOLS like ANTIFA and BLM against us.
See... the real problem is not TIK TOK and how it is being used. It's US. We are a nation divided against itself, and TIK TOK is just a tool being used by those who know they have an easy 'mark'.
We used to have a concept called CAVEAT EMPTOR which is Latin for BUYER BEWARE. Of course, very few know what the original Latin phrase means or have ever learned a word of Latin because we no longer care about having our children learn Latin, even though it is the basis of our entire ENGLISH LANGUAGE. We don't care if they can even READ or WRITE in ENGLISH. We also no longer care , as a society , about morals. But we are quick to want to BAN EVERYTHING the media tells us is dangerous. We no longer have or are allowed the ability to judge for ourselves what is right or wrong and deal with problems individually. The word INDIVIDUALLY is even in our PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, along with the word JUSTICE, and we have lost both of those things.
IF we don't get back to a society led by moral values and those who actually have some moral values, we won't have to worry about TIK TOK. We will all be MUSLIMS and there won't be an INTERNET that can be freely used. The Chinese just want to use us as a consumer but the Muslims want us to submit to ALLAH, and ALLAH don't like things like FREEDOM, PERSONAL CHOICE, and MORAL VALUES.
OR, you could just DECIDE FOR YOURSELF what should be used and if you don't like TIK TOK, don't use it. If you don't like the TV show "The VIEW", don't watch it. If you don't like loud concerts, don't buy tickets to it.
People complain about all our own CROOKED POLITICIANS, but those people (like Joe Biden) didn't transport here from another planet. They are people who grew up in our current society. A society whose guiding principle is "If it feels good, do it. Screw the law. My "wants" rule before all else".
Therein is our problem, not TIK TOK.
There is literally no issue they won’t flip flop on in order to accommodate whatever Trump says at the moment. Nothing
Yes he did.
It's embarrassing
typical bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN’T move...
Border out of control...
Debt out of control...
What should we do????
I know, BAN TIC TOC!!!!
That will solve all the problems...
The stupid is strong
I disagree with many things you post here on FREE REPUBLIC and the INTERNET. Should we ban YOU ? Should we ban FREE REPUBLIC ??? Should we ban the INTERNET ?????
That is the slippery slope you would have us run down. Instead, we should deal with the REAL PROBLEM and it ain’t TIK TOK.
“Microsoft Corp would take over TikTok in the US.”
I think it more of a threat with Microsoft owning it than China.
“And yes, at some point they’ll go after FR.”
You can bet on it, right after they ban Gab, Truth Social, Rumble, and as you say Twitter and thousands of others.
When they are done with political domains they will go after religious domains. Then cultural domains such as rural cultural domains.
This a Trojan Horse to get the enemy inside the gates...
When Trump issued the EO, they were all for banning the app.
Trump makes an inane statement on Truth Social doing a complete 180 on the divesture issue and they go all Greek chorus
Since your first sentence is grammatically incorrect, I would agree that we are in bigger trouble than you thought. A majority of people in this nation cannot construct complete sentences.
Thank you. The Chinese don’t let any of the degenerate content that flows to American teenagers through the this garbage app anywhere near their youth
It’s not the platform, it’s how it is used. Which is where WE THE PEOPLE come in.
TIK TOK became what is now, because of US, the people all around the world. Instead of blaming some entity like the CCP, maybe we need to do a little introspection.
Always good to see your clock is still ticking. I am glad Free Republic gave me a chance to experience your ‘character’ Live long, brother.
So yet another unenforceable regulation.
“I think it more of a threat with Microsoft owning it than China.”
By far...
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