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Gosh maybe they could like, make some kind of fancy petition or something. Write out exactly what banning TikTok should involve and then all sign their names to it - or at least as many of them as possible, anything more than half would be good - and put it on his desk and tell him he needs to sign it too. That would be very pressuring.
Instead of banning a single app, make a law to prevent this shit from happening in the first fucking place. >

Wait you are telling me users should have rights and control over the data they produce and the option to control access and monetization of said data and whether they want their data to end up in domestic or international servers? >

Not everyone had heard, but I declared Every Life A Work of Art, and due royalties for any performance data they care to share for public access. >

Almost time to bribe Congress with stock options >

Republicans hate Tiktok because they refuse to comply with America's heavy censorship standards >

Not so sure about that. According to Justitia, the US ranks very highly in freedom of speech. From a more politicized perspective, while both sides do advocate for some form of more limited free speech when it suits their narrative, it tends to be more pronounced on the left.
Regardless, I don't think that anyone can deny that giving a foreign government (especially China) massive access to American personal data is a bad thing. The question is how much of a role TikTok plays in China's data farming. Obviously Republicans believe it plays a much bigger role than Democrats seem to. Reading the article however, it seems to me that even Democrats think it's an issue to some degree, but caving to Republican demands would look bad. >

It's not just data farming. It's the fact that TikTok is a geopolitical weapon. Chinese TikTok is highly moderated and promotes things like DIY science experiments. The version of TikTok the rest of the world gets is a free-for-all where sensationalistic misinformation and time-wasting nonsense bubbles to the top.
TikTok is a potent, mind-altering drug that should be regulated as such. >

Education is the proper response to countering foreign propaganda.  Banning social media apps is what totalitarian governments do, and that’s not a trait our ostensibly free county should be emulating. >

It’s not propaganda, and they aren’t calling for a ban of social media. It’s mostly bullshit, and they’re trying to ban a (potentially) highly targeted geopolitical weapon. >

Do it.  Ban TikTok.