TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out

Users are freaking out

Oh noo how will I manage without my daily cringe worthy bullshit videos mixed with ads

Find your voice?

Ah, the only time you’re going to hear that from the Chinese company is when they want you to prevent someone coming between them and their data feed and profits.

Nevermind the algorithms that suppress voices they don’t want to be heard.

Governments banning social media based on who can use it to spy on who, instead of creating privacy regulations and enforcing them to create and regulate markets, which is kinda what they should do, to make it so it doesn't matter who owns which app. Taking an opportunity and shitting all over it for some childish standoff should be beneath us.

I think the tiktok fiasco is just another wrong solution to a problem. The problem is data collection and mismanagement of it; and no one is getting 'royalties' for their data being sold or used.

Chew responded to the latest moves in a video posted by the official TikTok account. "Make no mistake, this is a ban," Chew said in the video. "A ban on TikTok and a ban on you and your voice."

Narrator: it wasn't.

I hate tiktok. I am not from the US, but banning the app that is most popular among young people while raiding dozens of university campuses? Don't sound like a great way to get young people trust the system...

Given how easy it is to create shell corporations, how does any of this prevent the CCP from running TikTok through another proxy?

I.e. is all this posturing just a colossal waste of time?

Now that it's happening, I don't quite know how to feel.

I certainly don't feel sorry for Tiktok though.

they already said they will cease operations in the us if they can't fight this off in court

I'm not for banning shit. I am for educating. We need to show people what TikTok really is, what it does and how it affects shit.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

TikTok CEO Shou Chew has issued a rallying cry to users that the company plans to fight a possible US ban.

A foreign-aid bill passed Tuesday by the US Senate and signed by President Joe Biden Wednesday has millions of Americans who use TikTok freaking out over a potential ban.

The clip has over four million views as of Wednesday afternoon, and the comments show that users aren't ready to say goodbye to TikTok anytime soon.

Many expressed support for Chew, whose call to action hints at the pressure building against TikTok and its Chinese owners, Bytedance.

Others credited the platform for helping users find "their voice and livelihood" and providing "a sense of community here that we don't have anywhere else."

Despite Chew's defiant video and the growing outrage from the app's users, a TikTok ban won't happen in the immediate future.

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They're banning it because they blame tick tok for the pro Palestinian movement. Zuck and Google have been spying on users for decades.

my master plan, of laughing at people when the government overstepping is complete is FINALLY coming to fruition.

/s for those who haven't already discovered it.

There are a million startups chomping at the bit to create or have their existing app become the TikTok replacement in the event it does get banned.

This is the nature of American Capitalism. A monopolistic entity is broken up for this reason or that thereby making way for competition. According to all those economists, competition is good and breeds innovation.

I don't have a problem with this. Next go for Google, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft too.

Good.

Can someone make a federated decentralised alternative for these fellow addicts? At least they won’t be at mercy of geopolitical powers but only our local, innocent, slightly mad admins.

I realise though that it would take gargantuan effort$

us be like please please stop spying on our children so that WE can do that and also prevent the thoughtcrime of believing genocide (in Palestine) is bad

YouTube is going to eat their audience with Shorts.

If they had the best of the users in mind they would try to sell it. But if I was the CCP I would do everything so they couldn't sell it. Then you'd have a martyr which you could always point to that the US is also blocking, so blocking can't be so bad.

I don't see what the CCP would get out of selling it.