Montana becomes the first state to ban TikTok

[BUtterfield 8 41,880]

HELENA — Montana has become the first state to sign into law legislation banning Tiktok from operating within their borders, with Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signing Senate Bill 419 into law on Wednesday. The ban goes into effect on January 1, 2024.

In a press release, Gianforte said he signed the bill to “protect Montanas’ person, private, and sensitive data” from being gathered by China.

“The Chinese Communist Party using TikTok to spy on Americans, violate their privacy, and collect their personal, private, and sensitive information is well-documented,” Gianforte said. “Today, Montana takes the most decisive action of any state to protect Montanans’ private data and sensitive personal information from being harvested by the Chinese Communist Party.”

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[Better Day 5,766]

Good, I hope to see the end of the Chinese Spyware app. 

[Cody James 1,543]

I am a firm believer that the US government simply is scared of how powerful young voices are on TikTok, and how fast terrible laws that are being passed as well as horrific events taking place, are shared with thousands and thousands of people. 

[Cody James 1,543]

Just now, Cody James said:

I am a firm believer that the US government simply is scared of how powerful young voices are on TikTok, and how fast terrible laws that are being passed as well as horrific events taking place, are shared with thousands and thousands of people. 

The next thing will be banning Taylor Swift’s Only The Young song as it is a form of “ indoctrination”. 

[REALITY 80,341]

24 minutes ago, Better Day said:

Good, I hope to see the end of the Chinese Spyware app. 

But American spyware apps are fine!

[LOVEDRUG 11,350]

14 minutes ago, Cody James said:

I am a firm believer that the US government simply is scared of how powerful young voices are on TikTok, and how fast terrible laws that are being passed as well as horrific events taking place, are shared with thousands and thousands of people. 

yep. there's nothing worse for them than young people sharing their opinions and views on an app that they don't have the ability to collect personal information from.

[LateToCult 42,254]

I recently deleted the app because it was far too invasive. I was having a very specific conversation with a friend about a topic I had never googled or talked about before and then when I opened the app I got bombarded with videos about that topic. Gave me a huge ick. I know all apps are invasive but the way this one targets you so aggressively is off putting.

[Purrrrrr 18,533]

I can't even believe what I'm reading 

[Dennis 8,391]

Good, hopefully Twitter next  

[ProfessionalClown 10,647]

How will they even know who has it and who doesn’t and wtf would the legal issue be 

[tylerjs 6,102]

But American companies participating in the exact same data mining and privacy invasion are not of concern, got it

[StarstruckIllusion 53,777]

3 hours ago, Reality said:

But American spyware apps are fine!

This. Honestly why do people trust their own government spying on them over foreign ones? Who’s getting arrested if an American breaks Chinese law or something? China doesn’t even have an extradition treaty with America. 

This is a great opportunity to bring back Vine tho 

[BUtterfield 8 41,880]

32 minutes ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

This. Honestly why do people trust their own government spying on them over foreign ones? Who’s getting arrested if an American breaks Chinese law or something? China doesn’t even have an extradition treaty with America. 

This is a great opportunity to bring back Vine tho 

The ppl behind vine have an app called huddles but it’s not the same lol

[StarstruckIllusion 53,777]

1 hour ago, BUtterfield 8 said:

The ppl behind vine have an app called huddles but it’s not the same lol

Sadly, only person who could revive that is Elon - Twitter did create Vine tbf

[SharkmanthaC 115,320]

How will they prevent people from downloading it? That seems more invasive to me.