TikTok ban?

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I am only for this because it helps me financially. Otherwise, I don't use Tiktok so I don't really care.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

You gotta love Trump saying he doesn't want to ban Chinese owned Tiktok while simultaneously attacking American owned Meta. And, I am pissed Trump alone caused my Meta stock to drop 5% today.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

"Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are shady and untrustworthy individuals" is not exactly an argument for "The Chinese Communist Party is reliable and can be trusted fine"

 Nobody said they are or can be trusted. The CCP does have an interest in letting Americans criticize the worst aspects of American life. Just because they provide the platform for this, doesn't mean the messages people are sharing are not valid.

And they don't allow criticism of any of the Chinese actions on that platform: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/27/20985795/tiktok-censorship-china-uighur-bytedance

Probably doesn't bother the OP since he doesn't have any negative things to say about the CCP. They allow him to criticize the US government all he wants on Tiktok!

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

We are allowed to criticize China on all our social media platforms, why do you think that is?

Because we have a...bit...more freedom of speech in this country than people in Communist China. I won't comment on what Elon Musk did at Twitter. It's a private company he owns and he's been known to be unreasonable.

The FB link you posted was from a far-left socialist website. I don't know the sequence of events behind that so I won't comment other than the source it comes from. I will note it has nothing to do with banning accounts that criticize the US government, which is what we are discussing here.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Trump's flip-flop on Tik Tok is due to money money.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-tiktok-ban-reversal-after-meeting-megadonor-stake/story?id=108013785

Of course. I read about this. Again, he has no actual convictions. People who say "oh he won't sign an abortion ban / he's a sensible moderate" are lying to themselves thinking Trump has political positions.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Biden won’t win reelection at all if he signs this

Most people who use it can't vote anyway. Who cares

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Biden won’t win reelection at all if he signs this

Most people who use it can't vote anyway. Who cares

The youth that can vote will care. I think Americans will also question why congress can pass a Tik Tok ban so quickly and then ignore every other issue and pass the fewest laws in decades. It really makes me not want to vote at all.

It's sad if someone votes based on whether they can use Tiktok. Other social media platforms exist that aren't beholden to the CCP.

If ByteDance weren't collecting and using data from Americans for the CCP, it wouldn't have any problem storing the data in the US or divesting the app.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Biden won’t win reelection at all if he signs this

Most people who use it can't vote anyway. Who cares

The youth that can vote will care. I think Americans will also question why congress can pass a Tik Tok ban so quickly and then ignore every other issue and pass the fewest laws in decades. It really makes me not want to vote at all.

It's sad if someone votes based on whether they can use Tiktok. Other social media platforms exist that aren't beholden to the CCP.

If ByteDance weren't collecting and using data from Americans for the CCP, it wouldn't have any problem storing the data in the US or divesting the app.

The point just went over your head, man.

No, I get you're blaming Biden despite the fact the mess in Congress is not on him. People will blame him anyway.