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TikTokers Respond To Bill On Possible Ban Of TikTok In The United States

TikTokers Respond To Bill On Possible Ban Of TikTok In The United States

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Published December 14, 2022

Published December 14, 2022

In recent days, a bipartisan group of Senators and Congresspeople has proposed legislation to ban TikTok in the United States over concerns about the app's handling of user data and ties to China's government. As a result, TikTokers and others online have responded with shock to the news in droves.

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7177035315536940334


Marco Rubio (R-FL), the author of the bill, is not the first politician to sour on the increasingly popular and dominant social media platform in recent years — particularly due to its controversial ties to China.


President Donald Trump floated the idea of a ban in 2020 but got tied up in legal challenges, never becoming a serious threat to TikTok in America.

In India, however, the app has technically been banned for two years. Many U.S. states have also banned TikTok on the devices of government employees over security concerns, most recently Alabama and Utah.


Opponents of TikTok fear that its parent company ByteDance will feed data to the Chinese Communist Party, which is not a necessarily irrational fear since the Chinese government holds a lot of sway over Chinese companies and a social media platform like TikTok is undoubtedly valuable both for its capacity to influence people and gather data about populations.

TikTok would undoubtedly be a powerful weapon if it were put into combat or used for nefarious data collection.


Several avid TikTokers pushed back against the government, analyzing the situation as a generational conflict between imperialist Boomers and hip young people. Some also said strikingly critical things about the American government as word of the ban spread online.


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7161569929236450602
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7176979816237878574

Many influencers and content creators begged followers to go with them to a new platform, often Instagram, if TikTok ends. Others were also deeply sad and expressed their anguish via reaction videos.

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7176751997033532718
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7176805516772003078


Additionally, some TikTokers made dire predictions about the consequences of a TikTok ban.


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6856097225907391749

Others, however, seemed to support the ban, arguing that TikTok has a negative effect on society and is indeed an instrument of the Chinese government.

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7176710408860912939


It remains to be seen whether the bill will pass into law. If it does, it wouldn't happen for a long time because the bill has to make it out of committee in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, then pass in that chamber, then pass in the Democratic-controlled Senate and finally be signed into law by President Joe Biden (who notably signed an executive order reversing Trump's attempted ban).

While the bill is bipartisan, many of the decision-makers in both parties are uncommitted or possibly pro-TikTok.


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