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FCC Commissioner Calls To Ban TikTok

So millions of people make a living on TikTok. Yes, they can all move to Instagram and YouTube. My question? Will all of the right-wing TikTok creators (of which there are many) leave the platform immediately?
 
gr8oldies said:
So millions of people make a living on TikTok. Yes, they can all move to Instagram and YouTube. My question? Will all of the right-wing TikTok creators (of which there are many) leave the platform immediately?
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The annoying part about this is that you're right, there are conservatives on TikTok. These people keep wanting to shut down big tech because they claim it censors them. That's never been a problem on TikTok. Nobody has been banned from TikTok that I know of. But these baboons want to shut it down.
 
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France bans TikTok, Twitter from government staff phones

France says it's banning the “recreational″ use of TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and other apps on government employees' phones.
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France to ban Tik Tok from government issued phones. Note this includes Instagram and Twitter on Government issued phones in France.


PARIS (AP) — France announced Friday it is banning the “recreational” use of TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and other apps on government employees’ phones because of concern about insufficient data security measures.

The move follows similar restrictions on TikTok in democratic countries amid fears about the popular video-sharing app’s Chinese connections. But the French decision also encompassed other platforms widely used by government officials, lawmakers and President Emmanuel Macron himself.

The French Minister for Transformation and Public Administration, Stanislas Guerini, said in a statement that ’’recreational″ apps aren’t secure enough to be used in state administrative services and ”could present a risk for the protection of data.”
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Not everyone is in favor of banning TikTok.


A lot of young voters use TikTok, and it's not good politics to ban something 150 million people use.

Flanked by a raft of TikTok power users, Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) denounced efforts to boot the app from the United States as an affront on free expression online that would harm small businesses and digital creators.

“Our First Amendment gives us the right to speak freely and to communicate freely, and TikTok as a platform has created a community and a space for free speech for 150 million Americans and counting,” Bowman said while standing alongside over two dozen TikTok influencers.
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TheBigA said:
Not everyone is in favor of banning TikTok.


A lot of young voters use TikTok, and it's not good politics to ban something 150 million people use.
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Our right-wing folks know that young people communicate and organize on Tik-tok, and blame young people for the lack of a red wave. So cutting that means of communication and organization off would be no shock.
 
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Our right-wing folks know that young people communicate and organize on Tik-tok, and blame young people for the lack of a red wave. So cutting that means of communication and organization off would be no shock.
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The bans in several dozen countries now are exclusively limited to loading TikTok on government issued phones and devices, with the concern being security since there is a belief that the Chinese authorities have access to all data on the service. At issue is the fact that all "businesses" in China, while headed by entrepreneurs, is severely controlled and watched by the CCP.
 
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The bans in several dozen countries now are exclusively limited to loading TikTok on government issued phones and devices, with the concern being security since there is a belief that the Chinese authorities have access to all data on the service. At issue is the fact that all "businesses" in China, while headed by entrepreneurs, is severely controlled and watched by the CCP.
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Our legislature banned TikTok on all college campuses, which of course means absolutely no one will bypass the campus wi-fi and use their own data plan or a VPN to access TikTok. It's interesting because the University of Tennessee and other state universities have TikTok accounts for promotion in general, sports recruiting and promotion, etc, Are they supposed to close them. TikTok reaches the demographics they want.
 
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TikTok fined $15.9M by UK watchdog over misuse of kids' data

Britain’s privacy watchdog has hit TikTok with a multimillion-dollar penalty for misusing children’s data and violating other protections for users’ personal information. The Information Commissioner’s Office said Tuesday that it issued a $15.9 million fine to the short-video sharing app, which...
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Australia bans TikTok from federal government devices

Australia has become the last of the “Five Eyes” security partners to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from its federal government's devices. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said in a statement Tuesday that based on intelligence and security agencies’ advice, that ban would come into...
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Here is more on Tik Tok in Britain and Australia.
 
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Discord's rise punctuated by leak of classified documents

Discord is used by roughly 150 million people each month and was the eighth most-downloaded global social networking app in 2022, according to Apptopia.
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I wonder how Congress responds to this Social Media outlet called Discord now that it is getting attention outside Gen Z demos for Classified Pentagon Leaks allegations. We spent all this time looking at Meta, Twitter and Tik Tok for the same allegations that Discord is being investigated for by the FBI and Pentagon. We have a thread on Discord and one of their users who was with Massachusetts Air National Guard is being detained for this very allegation congress feared happened in other places.

This may be a case that this specific Social Media Outlet is not used by politicians for now.
 
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Montana Advances Bill Banning TikTok

Montana lawmakers advanced a bill that would prohibit internet service providers and app stores from offering TikTok to users in the state.
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Not So sure on this one.

Montana lawmakers on Thursday advanced a bill that aims to ban the use of TikTok in the state, due to concerns about national security, privacy and the app's content.

Senate Bill 419, which would take effect in January, prohibits TikTok from operating in Montana, and prohibits internet service providers and app stores from offering TikTok to users in Montana.

The bill would not penalize users, but provides for sanctions of $10,000 per day against TikTok and mobile app stores.

House lawmakers advanced the measure Thursday by a vote of 60-39, and are expected to vote for a final time on Friday. The state Senate passed the proposed law last month by a 30-20 vote.
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Now Official Montana approves to ban Tik Tok. This stuff will be challenged on the national level.

Montana has become the first state to approve a bill that would ban TikTok over the possibility that the Chinese government could request Americans' data from the wildly popular video-streaming app.

The GOP-controlled Montana House of Representatives sent the bill on Friday to Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte, who can now sign the measure into law.

The bill makes it illegal to download TikTok in the state, with penalties of up to $10,000 a day for any entity, such as Apple and Google's app stores or TikTok itself, that makes the popular video-streaming app available.

If enacted, the ban in the state would not start until January 2024.

A federal court challenge from TikTok is expected well before then, likely teeing up a legal brawl that supporters of the law in Montana say could eventually wind up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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gr8oldies said:
How in the world do you ban TikTok on a state level? You get pulled over "give me your license, registration, insurance and phone!"
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I think it puts the obligation on the DSPs.

Brooke Oberwetter, a TikTok spokesperson, said the bill's backers have admitted that there is "no feasible plan" for putting the TikTok ban in place, since blocking downloads of apps in any one individual state would be almost impossible to enforce.
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