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🚨 TikTok confirms it will shut down in the United States on January 19th unless the Supreme Court strikes down or postpones law requiring it to be sold.

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Everyone who is cheering for this doesn’t understand that TikTok is a worldwide app where everyone can share information in a global scale easily. If trump decides to go forward with his concentration style work camps for these prisoners no one else in the world will be able to see our videos/cries

Other sites grab people's data & sometimes there are leaks, as well as bad content and toxic stuff can be found anywhere. But I know good stuff there, such as cartoon characters, so I'm sad for their fans in USA.

Unfortunately, that does not appear how it works. I am curious though does Canada use the US apple and android playstore being that removal from the app stores is one of the two enforcement mechanisms proposed it might not be available in Canada either.

No, you’re making up your own understanding of my comment. The CCP is using tik tok to spread hate and fear in our societies and to interfere with our elections by exploiting the west’s freedom of speech. It’s not just china utilising this, Russia does too and all the other dictatorships.

I will make sure to use better phrasing in the future. It’s a CCP psyop aimed towards disrupting our democracies and societies. Because of media freedom here in the west this app is currently nothing but a megaphone with which far right dictatorships spread hatred.

In my country an extremely right wing party which wants to give away our territory to russia was voted into parliament because they had an extensive campaign on tik tok. In romania recently elections were cancelled because a random nobody right wing extremist was nearly voted president the same way

In the US we have access to information and points of view on TikTok that is not as easily accessed otherwise because our mainstream media is worthless. Thus encouraging us to research and be more well informed as a whole. This is why they want it banned. Freedom of speech must be upheld.

Apart from this tik tok propaganda is extensively radicalising people against minorities. All sorts of conspiracies, all sorts of completely fake information, all sorts of extremely violent propaganda. In my country there are mobs of young people who go on crusades against minorities.

Honestly, I'm glad they're not planning on selling it even if that means the US will lose access. As long as the upcoming administration doesn't get power over it like they have over Meta & Twitter, I'm good with that

What a shame I was starting to like it to be honest I’m only using it to post my art there isn’t there another way to avoid being shut down couldn’t they just say not to use has political app instead or have voting asking the people if TikTok should stay for people to use it has social media and art