House passes bill to ban TikTok

The legislation gives China-backed company ByteDance six months to divest from TikTok before app stores would start prohibiting access.

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[charlesfelix]

Tik tok makes people stupid. Had a nurse give advice she heard on there about my wife's cancer. This younger generation is fkd.

[AwkwardWhispers]

Good. China aside, it’s killing our attention spans.

[jameslovell]

Disgraceful dishonesty here with headline - "house passes bill to ban TikTok", when the actual video headline is- "house passes bill that COULD ban "journalism".

[chris]

This is great now ppl and kids can go out side and have real human interaction

[ColderThanU]

Social media is not a real place . . 🤦‍♂️

[cici]

This is blackmail, you can't force a foreign company to sell their company/app just because they allow users to criticize Israel's actions. This is not about American apps not being allowed in China. This is about Israel.

[MewU]

All social media is rotting our brains

[thetongardengnome]

Biden doesn't need the 7 million US TikTok users who are making money on TikTok. Thats what the 35 million illegal immigrants are for😂

[jrquinn]

I say, ban them all. Or have an age restriction that would require their child and both parents or guardians to complete a training course on how to use the App responsibly.

This whole social media thing and kids are making parents lazy in the supervision and guidance of their children.

[Unknown]

Delete TikTok! Ignore the Ignorant people, they think tiktok is a job when it isn't, get a real job. 🤦‍♀️

[BabaBooey]

Ban TikTok WORLD WIDE, we don’t need that 💩

[funtree]

Why would someone want to make Tik Tok their financial income? Making dance moves ain't gonna pay all the bills 💀

[irawnixtv]

When this bill came up TikTok sent push notifications to their users about it so they would push back.

[joytimmons]

Banning and shutting down TikTok is a good thing. Better ways to promote your products, services, and business and connect with people are better. Attending events, hosting events, chatting with people on the Zoom website, and inviting people to the website are the best ways to conduct business or take advantage of other opportunities.

[FirstThief]

The government will focus on anything that doesn’t have to do with bettering the lives of its citizens.

[renaissance]

i can see now, 170 million users gonna go insane after this LOL

[Xxnfctd_ScbzxX]

okay but when will people be able be able to have affordable health care and food that doesn't poison them with microplastic? yet youre concerned with tiktok. at that rate get rid of Twitter/x too.

[jeffdishong]

Garbage or not, people still have the right to express themselves through words. If they start with this, what would it end with?

[melodyanderson]

No don’t make it better just ban it. Nothing good comes out of the subject changing every 5-10 seconds. My husband will show me tik toks he think is hilarious and they are all so mind numbing and stupid it’s not even funny it actually concerns me. I’ve not been impressed by anything he shows me just concerned for our next generation. I don’t have any social media except for YouTube because at least YouTube puts out educational content videos longer than 30 seconds long and if you pay for premium there isn’t a random video that pops up in the middle of another one.

[Midnight_Editz_Wc]

BANN TICKTOK!!!! "GUys THiS iS mY LiFe" omg get a life! Its not real!!!!