US legislators are absolutely out of touch with reality — technology especially.
with kosa and tiktok censorship; with meta & google manipulating elections, trafficking private data, selling information to police, providing technology used in war crimes; with the cataclysmic environmental impacts of artificial intelligence… [to name a few]
ALL of the american tech companies do more harm to the world than one company in china.
none of that matters, solely due to the strong presence of a pro-palestine/anti-genocide movement on tiktok.
so the house of representatives just passed a bill that will now move to the senate to BAN tik tok completely in the united states and they are expected to argue that “national security risks” outweigh the freedom of speech and first amendment rights. biden has already said that if it gets to him, he will sign it. whether or not you use the app…….this is something to be worried about