I declare BANKRUPTCY!!!

Species of apples

I miss Kmart and Kmart’s Smart Sense low calorie lemonades: https://i.imgur.com/W0DzcZS.jpeg

They tasted so… weird… but man I loved em. We bought all of them when stores were closing. Still have a few in the garage for rainy days.

This is a nonsense suit. We have Android. I mean great hopefully alternate app stores and payment methods… eh.

I’d rather them go after the only internet provider for like half the country instead: Comcast.

Maybe he was talking in terms of Zimbabwe dollars

I’m not really ok with that type of anti other country behavior in (edit to add the word: almost) any case. Heck, I want cheap Chinese EV options in the US too.

Make government (and other) tracking opt-out-able by law. That is the law we need. Not this bs version.

This current bill literally sounds like it’s written by American companies to squash a foreign competition. You know Facebook, YouTube, etc. are biting at the teeth for more users (and ad revenue) of short form content; especially if TikTok users scattered to other platforms.

Once again: give users the freedom to chose what they want. This is a government overreach.

I would say make laws about data collection, usage, etc. instead of banning TikTok.

Heck, fix more important problems like income disparity, hunger, homelessness, healthcare, our wasteful spending, so many things more important and yet we’re wasting time on TikTok.

I don’t think people think this is a good use of time.

Seriously, it’s government overreach and ignoring freedom of speech, etc.

Probably but I think the point they were making was more along the lines of: what if the Internet archive itself ran out of money or closed up.

Why not just build a wikipedia mirror?

All the data is available for free via download, torrent, etc.

Idk I have no complaints about wikipedia to lead me to look for a federated alternative.

If the same videos TikTok had were instead on YouTube shorts, would all you people be happy? What about if Meta had it? It’s pure nationalism and old people being scared of short form woke-ness.

I believe every social media has a misinformation problem, but I’m not just pinning it on TikTok.

Heck, our fear is the same reason we don’t have cheaper EVs. We say 'the CCP… ’ and poof less competition and shitter availability for Americans.

I think it’s ridiculous. I could care less if the CCP knows what type of short form videos I like. I’m sure our government has the same type of data. Obviously users could care less too. Leave choice to the people: hence freedom.

I believe in freedom of speech. Trying to take this (stupid) app away is a violation of it. I don’t care about who owns it or gets data from it.

And no: I don’t regularly use TikTok.