The big news today is that the US House passed a bill requiring the Chinese overlords who run TikTok to divest their US holdings or be banned in this country. The bill is going nowhere in the Senate and Biden won't sign it, so that's that. The bill is going nowhere.
We all know that social media is a festering hell hole, but it has a few good uses. I get most of my entertainment and news from YouTube. I use Facebbook to keep up with the goings-on at the church and to keep track of my Fast Draw friends.
I have never used TikTok, nor Twitter (Now X). But, I know that being an "influencer" is a thing now, and some of it provides a pretty good living to some folks. One of these days we might decide that social media is more of a liability than an asset, and the market will decide.
Congress really needs to stay out of this argument. There is that whole 1st Amendment thing, and I'll fall on the side of fee speech before I fall on the side of government regulation. Let Freedom Ring
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Sigh... Sadly, I think you're right that the Senate and Xiden won't do anything...
Congress should stay out of the social media component of society. If you think that they are incompetent when it comes to managing the economy, they are far more clueless when it comes to social media on the internet.
Whatever bill they happen to pass will be corrupted (or is designed to be corrupted) in order to limit freedom of speech on any other platform that does not comply with government objectives. You can be sure that those government objectives are not in your best interests.
pjk
Sadly, most people rely on social media for "unbiased" news, and given the outright lies coming from all forms of "normal" news sources, who could blame them? Our main stream media is Pravda reincarnated.
irontomflint
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