Local TikTok creator reacts to potential ban of the app

There are about 170 million TikTok users in the United States but the fate of the social media app is questionable.

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[bandre]

NO company should her able to collect our data just from using an app. Foreign or domestic. Apple does it, so does facebook, so thousands of others, theyre just mad they now have competition in the market. Don't ban the apps or companies, ban the lengths they're able to reach and data they're able to collect/buy/sell.

[trevordollinger]

Lmfao tell this dude he's 40 and has no business making tiktok dances anyways.

[OnjelieMarie]

It’s about these young kids looking at all this crap on an app. It’s toxic . I’ve seen it personally in real life.

[ItsMeBarnaby]

Oh no he might have to get a real job poor guy :(

[MisterDawn-px]

Imagine the perfect app that spies on you while fooling people into seeing & using it as a popular social media platform...

[Prphcy-kz]

So the richest guy in Rhode Island is worried about his tik tok career? Ever heard of investments my guy? Oh I may have to live off the interest rates of the $ millions I already have.

[richpaydirt]

He needs to grow up and enter the job market.
40 years old and making dance videos on a Chinese owned media platform won’t get him any respect.

[Chilok]

Get rid of it, get a REAL job, and get over it

[natepittman]

Sorry to hear all those 'influencers' will have to get real jobs.

[xetayeta]

Thanks India, Tiktok is ban here. I love absesne of tiktok in india. Our next demand is Instagram

[frostyb]

Get a real job "content creation" is not a reliable job.

[Ninnjette-]

So a 40-year-old is more concerned with making money, then protecting our youth from this terrible app.. nice.

[Anthem]

Small buisinesses who get the word out on tiktok is one thing. This is just pathetic.

[Mberalf]

its an 8yr committee? And they are barely making a move?

[TheGreenDragon.]

You just have download it, and update it regularly.

[fatimaperez]

I hope they delete the thing and we never hear about it again

[seoulku]

i can’t wait for ts to get banned just because the internet will be in shambles 😂😂

[mevinkoser]

This grown man really said that he wasn't given enough information to fully understand exactly why "they feel" that this (mass data collection) is threat to the American people.

But he does understand that if the potential security threat of this(mass data collection) did exist, AND "they" can show it to him, then he will be on board.

I dont know where to

[AlfianFendrico]

West Corporations / governments : Plant paddy, Rice is robbed

[irecruitfish]

India abandoned in 2020 and all that happened was Facebook and Google took over which are American companies why are people complaining? Why give revenue to a foreign country?