Is This The End of TikTok?
57,752
Publicado 2024-04-26
In this video, we look at why Congress is so keen to ban TikTok; whether it’s actually a good idea; and whether it’ll actually happen.
🎞 TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@tldrnews
💡 Got a Topic Suggestion? - forms.gle/mahEFmsW1yGTNEYXA
Support TLDR on Patreon: www.patreon.com/tldrnews
Donate by PayPal: tldrnews.co.uk/funding
Our mission is to explain news and politics in an impartial, efficient, and accessible way, balancing import and interest while fostering independent thought.
TLDR is a completely independent & privately owned media company that's not afraid to tackle the issues we think are most important. The channel is run by a small group of young people, with us hoping to pass on our enthusiasm for politics to other young people. We are primarily fan sourced with most of our funding coming from donations and ad revenue. No shady corporations, no one telling us what to say. We can't wait to grow further and help more people get informed. Help support us by subscribing, engaging and sharing. Thank
Todos los comentarios (21)
-
The lumping of Ukrainian aid and banning Tiktok into a single bill reminds me of that bit in The Simpsons, where a bill to destroy a comet headed for Springfield is going to pass, until a congressman amends it to add federal funding for pornography, condemning the "Save Springfield and Perverted Arts Bill" to a landslide defeat.
-
You have to remember this isn’t unusual. China banned YouTube, lol.
-
Why sell to American investors? Couldn’t they sell to a company in any country that doesn’t have laws like the 1993 one you mentioned?
-
I'm not going to weigh in on whether banning TikTok is consistent with Freedom of Speech or if it is a worthy exception, as well as if it's truly a slippery slope or not. All I will say is that I find the rhetoric about teenage mental health and the whole Palestine argument around it to be equally if not more applicable to YouTube. That is to say, there's far more underlying reasons for it than just content suppression and/or algorithms cleating echo-chambers.
-
3:45 All things aside this graph is pretty disingenuous. The y-axis says it’s a 1-3 scale, but it’s been truncated to start at 1.97 and goes only to 2.13
-
5:30 "American politicians don't like it because Israel doesn't" Well this explains it all 🙄
-
I can't believe we've been discussing this for as long as we have.
-
Not a single word mentioning that the "ban" simply removes it from app stores in the US. users could still very easily install and use the app.
-
If certain contents don't appear on that platform, it doesn't directly mean it is controlled by Chinese gov. Companies in China are known to self-censor certain contents to avoid problems. Just like how companies would censor anti-certain-religion or gender etc, in the West. Censorship is everywhere wherever you look at it. You can't go up to The Guardian news and write your right-w stance.
-
Wouldn't surprise me if TikTok is bought by Oracle, since they already handle their datacenters and algorithm (with heavy oversight from China), so even if the company normally has products like the programming language Java or the VM hypervisor VirtualBox, it would make sense for them seeing as they have all the infrastructure already. Alternatively, if Oracle doesn't buy them, it might be Microsoft, as they might want to compete with Google with their video platform.
-
Thank you
-
as someone who was in university in 2016, before tiktok was even a thing, pro-Palestine sentiment among young people is aggressively NOT a new thing
-
Love that intro song!
-
Let's hope so
-
Considering the hoops foreign companies have to jump through to operate in China, it's about time America did something, but a forced sale seems a bit excessive.
-
Hopefully
-
Yes! Yes it is!
-
damn! you guys explained it well. keep it up!🎉
-
shut down tiktok and no more money sh t
-
I hate how our government lumps totally unrelated legislation into one bill and then names the bill something so vague yet so patriotic or noble sounding so that anybody who votes against it is criticized heavily and villainized 🙄 they’ll take the tiktok ban and Ukraine aid and put it in a bill called “save the puppies act” so when politicians vote against it bc of the tiktok ban bill for instance, then the media and their political rivals can drag them for voting against saving the puppies 🙄😂
