great!

now I can just disable JavaScript to end my dependence on their services.

so when other companies that refuse to adhere to labor laws in the US move their factories to other countries, are they banned?

I wonder how many 7 year olds are picking up Mandarin to protest this tiktok thing.

no, they were given the option.

1. split into two companies
2. close down operations in the US

that’s pretty cut a dry they chose to end operations in the US. The US didn’t ban them.

I didn’t want to give him the satisfaction of having his first or last name be untainted.

Cuck Fuckerberg

the app wasn’t banned, the company refused to split American operations off.

that being the case, doesn’t that provide more merit to tiktok being a data mining operation that China uses against American interests?

how dare you bring an enlightened perspective into the Chinese brain rot on this platform! /s

China is socialist like 1940 Germany was socialist.

can’t really explain those camps away, can they…

this is now a pervert meme thread!

I’ve got some Ariat jeans that are tough.

if they didn’t want to feel threatened then they shouldn’t run their businesses so provocatively.

Blackcock and BJ Hornan!

just pointing out your self-righteous response of “things change” can be equally applied to tiktok getting banned.

if you don’t like it then don’t be so indignant.

you clearly aren’t taking this discussion seriously or you’re acting in bad faith.

you continue to pound the same useless points again and again with little to no change.

I can only assume that your intent is this and that you’re simply trying to “muddy the water”.

I’m disappointed that you can’t even hold up your argument without repeating yourself like a broken record because you don’t even believe in your own message.

literally the only new angle you have taken is a “pro-palestinian” one, which to be frank tells me all I need to know about you and your goals.

sound advice!

TikTok is banned in the US.

things change, man.

Hardly a strawman! We have a major social media company in the US, that is controlled by a foreigner, for their own, and for foreign interests, and impacting our elections with measureable results.

are you even taking this seriously? did you not even comprehend what I said or are you just blindly responding hoping for a “gotcha”?

So, obviously, this move wasn’t done to prevent such a thing from happening, just to prevent certain countries from doing it.

not obvious, and just because you say it with more conviction doesn’t make it true.

Our current admin has done nothing to stop it, and therefore allowing it.

by that logic, then you’re just as guilty for allowing them to do nothing. so what gives you the right to complaint about it if you haven’t done anything to stop them?

Why are all the US Gov accounts STILL on Twitter?

there are so many reasons why but you’re just too emotional and inexperienced to see them, but I’ll point out a couple just so you can see how absurd you’re being.

• government moves slow, it takes years to move a major communications component
• red tape slows the process down even more, budgetary concerns, compliance requirements, contractual obligations
• lack of existing choices that have the same scope of reach to Americans
• popularity of the platform for Americans

my advice, sit down and listen before you go off half cocked.