Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it
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ByteDance has up to a year to sell TikTok and avoid a ban.

Free speech in AmeriKKKa is looking good! Americans should only rely on true, red-blooded, patriotic, and megacorporations like Microsoft and Google with their data!

Another bill that was added on was an Israel aid bill that sends Israel and the IDF a further 26.3 billion dollars.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    73·
    7 months ago

    Surreal. This while Columbia University students protesting genocide are facing threat of the national guard being brought in, while students at University of Austin Texas are dealing with violent cops just for peacefully demonstrating.

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.mlOP
      46·
      7 months ago

      Don’t forget that as a slap to the face to students calling for divestment from Israel, both parties sneakily shoved in another bill alongside this one that sends another 26.3 billion dollars to Israel.

      • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.mlOP
        40·
        7 months ago

        They want mainstream media, and news from American mega corporations like Facebook to be all that people see.

        Tiktok has let regular people who care nothing about politics see the atrocities.

        That’s what they fear. They can’t control the narrative as easily.

      • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
        32·
        7 months ago

        Let’s not forget this push and this particular bill (though amended since) predates the October 7th rebellion against the zionists and all that has happened since.

        It’s not about crushing these particular protests (though their existence has lent impetus to crushing all avenues of media they don’t control), it’s about preventing the next ones. It’s about continuing to have control of the narrative. And much more importantly than that is it’s about profit for American capitalists. They can’t invest in tik-tok, they can’t profit off it, they don’t own it. And lastly it’s about global control. CIA tells their “former” officers in Facebook or Twitter or any other American company to prop up a color revolution in Mongolia or wherever? They do so with glee and give them data on anyone trying to interfere. CIA tries to tell tik-tok’s global company to do the same? They’ll refuse to honor it, say they’ll comply only with US law with regards to activities in the US.