Posted on 01/14/2025 3:40:59 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Senator Ed Markey is fighting to stop a potential TikTok ban in the United States.
On Monday, the Massachusetts Democrat introduced the Extend the TikTok Deadline Act, aiming to prevent the platform’s shutdown, which could disrupt the lives of 170 million American users.
Markey warns that the “stakes are high,” as a sudden ban would upend a "one-of-a-kind informational and cultural ecosystem.” He has proposed extending the deadline by 270 days.
“Let me be clear: TikTok has its problems,” the senator stated in his remarks. “Like every social media platform, TikTok poses a serious risk to the privacy and mental health of our young people. I will continue to hold TikTok accountable for such behavior. But a TikTok ban would impose serious consequences on millions of Americans who depend on the app for social connections and their economic livelihood. We cannot allow that to happen.”
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
This is one of those things like the Patriot Act that sounds good, but then you find out they passed it to use on you and not the people you thought it was for.
“one-of-a-kind informational and cultural ecosystem.”
Yeah well that’s the problem, isn’t it.
George W. Bush was a benevolent President (I'm not talking about the Iraq War).
Obama and Biden ended up weaponizing the federal government to go after political opponents.
Mark Zuckerberg basically said that during his podcast with Joe Rogan.
SCOTUS will tell him that he wrote the bills. He needs to live with them. It’s not up to the courts to help fix the problems the Congress started.
If this treasonous scumbag is against the ban it means the ban is needed
So Dubya was a useful idiot.
“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” ― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
HOW MUCH $$$ is getting behind our backs???
““Like every social media platform, TikTok poses a serious risk to the privacy and mental health of our young people. “
Pornhub is Canadian and is all of that in spades. But DC doesn’t much care about trying to ban that.
Great quote. I have always admired Marcus Cicero too
“DISRUPT THE LIVES OF 170M USERS”...
while the people who make money posting on TIKTOK certainly will...
Tell me how the lives of 170Million American’s are going to be disrupted because they can’t watch teenagers take the next tide pod challenge?
Or we be forced to download some other app in order to do so?
Sounds like lives that could use disrupting.
Biden signed this for two reasons: (1) He thought he would be re-elected, (2) He thought he could use it to ban “X”. the FReeper who said this is like the Patriot Ac t is 100% correct. We should NEVER accept our government banning speech, especially with “national security” propaganda behind it.
FReepers are okay with banning speech as long as the Trojan Horse is something associated with the Chi-Coms.
1965: Markey's last contact with the Private Sector
Kill Tic-Tok, eff China.
Plenty of other “App’s” for the brain damaged to hang out on.
This is actually trivial, when will we impose some ACTUAL penalties on the Chinese for their insane level of espionage?
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