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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 months ago (19 children)

Cool, now let's ban Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and every single social media platform that does the same exact thing as TikTok. I have never used TikTok, but this is fucking bullshit. Facebook literally ruined elections and lives around the world.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Only the US is allowed to ruin elections.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Technically true of any country: only China is allowed to influence CCP elections, only Russia is allowed to fix Russian elections, only the US is allowed to ruin US elections...

They still try to influence each other's ones, but they aren't openly "allowed" to...

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