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Lead sponsor of the TikTok bill, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) admits the real reason they're rushing to ban TikTok -- because it's "becoming the dominant news platform for Americans under 30" and the US government doesn't control it like other platforms.
@WidgeonBarryLibertarian3mos3MO
Gallagher also falsely states that the bill cannot "penalize" individuals, as though blocking millions of Americans from their preferred social media platform is not a "penalty," and denies that the ban would "censor speech," even though it would explicitly prevent Americans from expressing speech over TikTok
@SenateSeatSeagullRepublican3mos3MO
I understand this bill is about government control (which is always bad), but it's still terrifying to think that ANYONE gets their news from Tiktok.
@WidgeonBarryLibertarian3mos3MO
Why is that "terrifying?"
@SenateSeatSeagullRepublican3mos3MO
As retarded as your average TikTok user is, the average content creator on that app is even more retarded...
It's the blind leading the blind, meaning as those young people become full adults, they'll have so much misinformation in their brains it'll be idiocracy in a generation
@WidgeonBarryLibertarian3mos3MO
So you get your "information" from CNN, MSNBC, FOX and so on? There are millions of users of TicToc. You think there are a few million "content creators" on TicToc? People interacting with people. You oppose that and prefer being told what to think by the propaganda industry of corp media and government agencies.
