It’s so funny because when the social media’s companies were spying on kids in the early 00’s nobody lifted a finger and now since Congress can’t control kids because they all left the shitty American Conservative spy network of Facebook, Google, and Snap they gotta shut down the Chinese spy network so they can add it to their conservative spy network.

American tech companies suck dick and eat shit. Non-compete agreements have been the cause but now lets see some shit come out that circumvents the shitbag spy network.

As of June 2022, 100% of all U.S. user traffic is routed to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the United States, and today all access to that environment is managed exclusively by TikTok U.S. Data Security. We have begun the process of irretrievably deleting historic protected user data in our own Virginia and Singapore data centers; once that process is complete, it will effectively end all access to protected U.S. user data outside of TikTok USDS except under limited circumstances stipulated in our proposed national security agreement.

Guess that wasn't enough...

Looks like VPN companies are about to see alot of new users soon

More gov't censorship and control over social media...

The ADL will be delighted. Now they just need to imprison all student protestors and the US can go back to sleep

Behold, the great reverse firewall of china

So stupid.

I like how they're still referring to it as some ban as if Meta, Google, and Amazon aren't about to fight with fistfulls of money over who gets to own it.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Senate late Tuesday passed a broad legislative package that delivers $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies.

The bill also includes a provision that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the U.S. if the popular platform's Chinese owner doesn't sell its stake within a year.

That has raised concerns among lawmakers and security experts that the Chinese government could tap TikTok's trove of personal data about millions of U.S. users.

Meanwhile, TikTok had asked its users to contact their lawmakers to argue against the bill's passage, an effort that failed to sway opinions in Washington, D.C., noted Eurasia Group director Clayton Allen.

"I will sign this bill into law and address the American people as soon as it reaches my desk tomorrow so we can begin sending weapons and equipment to Ukraine this week," Mr. Biden said.

However, Ives thinks ByteDance would be unlikely to sell TikTok with its core algorithms, the vital software that provides video recommendations to users based on their interests and viewing habits.

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Well, if it leaves the US I will miss Anthony Hopkins and also the videos Martin Scorsese's daughter makes of her dad.

If it happens nothing of value will be lost. I say if because ByteDance has almost certainly already created a western shell company backed by Chinese billionaires to buy TikTok and keep it running.