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  TikTok has a history of censoring LGBTQI Content.   
  In 2019 they allowed local moderation to ban LGBT content. 
  In 2020 they apologised for censoring LGBTQI content for over a year, and say they will only remove LGBTQI content when required by law enforcement. I hope you are not in a country that outlaws homosexuality.   
  in MArch 2022, TikTok was found censoring and shadowbanning people using gay terms in Germany... grouping terms like "Gay", and "LGBT" with nazi phrases.   
  TikTok suspended HRC when it posted "GAY!" for violating "Community Standards" earlier this year. 
  Libs of TikTok is massively popular despite TikTok's Policy of limiting anti LGBTQI+ and Hate content.   
  Now TikTok does do some pro-LGBTQI+ things, but their record is mixed, especially depending on where you live in the world, and they "turnaround" 15 months ago is a bit... too soon to see if they are real.
context: "Digital Fentanyl" - just like Fox News. >
  
  but, if guns don’t kill people and we aren’t banning guns, obviously tiktok shouldn’t be banned right? It’s the user right? >
  
  But In this analogy the gun is being fired by the Chinese Govt. >
  
  Better not let any cops have that app, they'll start flopping around like soccer players. >
  
  Too late >
  
  TikTok, and unregulated social media in general, are major problems both psychologically and security wise, but throwing together War on Drugs word salad like this together doesn't help their case.
  I'm also hesitant when a member of the GOP has the right "overall" opinion about something since even when they want to take action on the right issues, it's typically in a horrendous manner and for awful reasonings. >
  
  Agreed. I do think something needs to be done about tik tok. China doesn't allow tik tok in their own country. China is able to collect data and meta data on US citizens. 
  This is a new world, one in which an opponent could use scientific understanding of psychology to exploit an adversary. China regulates their social media, and turns around to provide the west tik tok, why not weaken the cultural situation of your adversaries, why not foment hatred amongst groups. 
  I definitely don't trust the GOP or any member of the GOP but I feel the same about the CCP as well. >
  
  TikTok is what 99 percenters crave! Is full of electrolytes! >
  
  Go away, I'm baitin' >
  
  lazily lifts up hand to flip you off but is entirely too lazy to lift the digits so I half ass at lifting those too while laughing at ow my balls >
  
  Hmm, Instagram is hexadecimal crack cocaine? >
  
  Twitter is meth? >
  
  Facebook is Krokodil >
  
  Vine is Quaaludes >
  
  …and once again, we see people using the language of the War on Drugs to demonize undesired behaviors as pathologies. >
  
  This is how the GOP phrases everything.  It is consumable by their base and distracts from what really needs to be addressed or worse what they will do to help their patrons behind the scenes.
  Remember their leader Trump had an active Chinese bank account. >
  
  …try pointing out that “porn addiction” isn’t “addiction” on Reddit though and watch brains explode. >
  
  Yeah, I wasted far more time than it was worth the other day trying to get some fool that was claiming "porn addiction" caused a man to murder his wife to show any evidence of that ever happening anywhere. >
  
  Hey I saw that! I'm pretty sure I remember that braindead comment. >
  
  ..... and Twitter is 'virtual Heroin' says the head of the committee for the promotion of language abuse & word salads. >
  
  Just throwing words together >
  
  Truly. If this were the 80s they’d have gone with digital crack. >
  
  An entirely unserious person >
  
  I wonder how many people have OD'd on TikTok. Seems alarming to imagine how painful it is for victims and their families when digital drugs ruin lives like this. My friend got addicted to digital LSD videos on YouTube like this our senior year and his life was changed forever. He only lived another six months before he went to college, got married, had kids, and is now the leader of a digital drug cartel in Djbouti. >
  
  GOP is just scared they can't control the narrative. They're also still salty about how young people used social media to embarrass Trump at his Tulsa rally. >
  
  They probably more scared that there is so much gender affirming, pro-socialist and similarly left leaning content on there. >
  
  TikTok has a history of censoring LGBTQI Content.   
  In 2019 they allowed local moderation to ban LGBT content. 
  In 2020 they apologised for censoring LGBTQI content for over a year, and say they will only remove LGBTQI content when required by law enforcement. I hope you are not in a country that outlaws homosexuality.   
  in MArch 2022, TikTok was found censoring and shadowbanning people using gay terms in Germany... grouping terms like "Gay", and "LGBT" with nazi phrases.   
  TikTok suspended HRC when it posted "GAY!" for violating "Community Standards" earlier this year. 
  Libs of TikTok is massively popular despite TikTok's Policy of limiting anti LGBTQI+ and Hate content.   
  Now TikTok does do some pro-LGBTQI+ things, but their record is mixed, especially depending on where you live in the world, and they "turnaround" 15 months ago is a bit... too soon to see if they are real. >
  
  Fentanyl is an essential medication. >
  
  GOP are entering into another McCarthy era. >
  
  Democrats support this too. >
  
  No more suggestions, my hip-hop trio has found its name. >
  
  typical republican trying to ignore the free market when it suits his agenda >
  
  And Facebook/Meta, reddit, Instagram, Twitter, etc, aren't the same? >
  
  That's not fair.  Elon Musk was far more authoritarian on Twitter than the CCP has been on TikTok. >
  
  Specifically focusing on TikTok without mentioning social media as a whole is a good way to separate people who have legitimate concerns about social media versus xenophobes who can't stand that something made by China would be successful in the US, especially now that it competes with one of their biggest boosters in Elon Musk's Twitter.
  If the laws and regulations have legitimate gaps then update them, if laws and regulations are being broken then enforce them, but do it in a way that consistently addresses all social media companies including those based in the US. >
  
  You can't do that if China's law obligates them not to disclose any cooperation with Ministry of State Security.
  That law doesn't exist for no reason, and you have to assume TikTok is a tool they can use whenever needed. We don't have Russian TV stations for the same reason, and TV would be much easier to regulate. >
  
  Is there any proof that China is doing nefarious things with the data from Tik Tok, or is this leftover rage from when kids used it to ruin a Trump rally? >
  
  Lolol ok, I love my horse videos, sue me. >
  
  don't you mean the new House select committee on CHYNAH!? >
  
  Everything he said could also be applied to the GOP. Just substitute Fox News for Tik Tok and Russia for China. >
  
  So I can beam it at some cops over wifi and theyll keel over like fainting goats? >
  
  Good way of describing it.
  But then it's probably fair to call Reddit fentanyl-lite. >
  
  Now imagine Reddit (without comments and down voting) was subject to a law that says it has to lie about any cooperation with CCP. Would you use it? >
  
  I am all for online communities, but TikTok is closer to (CCP controlled) MTV than Reddit.
  I would like to point out one thing: TikTok's one-click-clip is not a social network. You never see other people's comments, you don't see friends' content. (In theory you could, but in reality that is not the case)
  You can't really compare it to Twitter or Reddit. I never saw a kid who can spend 8h just browsing Facebook. It really is far more addictive and it is targeted at youngest generation. >
  
  This is a blatant lie.
  You most certainly see other peoples’ comments, and it prioritizes friends’ content. It is essentially identical to instagram reels, YouTube shorts, and trending content on Snapchat. The only thing giving it more scrutiny than other apps is that the stolen data doesn’t make its way to American interests. >
  
  No, it's not a lie. And you can find many discussions for it in the industry. TikTok will show you what's popular, even if none of your friends posted it. >
  
  I thought digital fentanyl was WeChat. >
  
  Feeling my age. >
  
  Probably the only thing I have agreed with Republicans on in years. >
  
  “Digital fentanyl”??? Ahh yes, that would explain why all those (non-existent) people died from “digitally overdosing” on TikTok ;) >
  
  Is Twitter just plain old digital heroin?
  In all honesty, Twitter is super toxic.  Tik Tok is just cool skiing videos and scantily clad middle aged women as far as I can tell. >
  
  TikTok is famous for having an incredibly aggressive algorithm - Facebook and Twitter dipped out early and went for the profit-making angle over just pure engagement. Tiktok goes for pure engagement because China is satisfied with data mining and subtle manipulation of what you’re seeing rather than trying to make money selling you cereal and toilet paper.
  So you see skiing and middle-aged booba because that’s what engages you. And yeah the more time you spend on it the better profile they’ll have on you and the more engaging they can make it, they’re right that it’s super addictive, they just are punching the dopamine button as hard as possible.
  Over time the “manipulation of what you’re seeing” will trend towards china’s interests, conservatives will see pro-sedition and antivaxx stuff that creates strife in the mainstream and leftists will see the “nothing matters, don’t vote” that splits that side of the party etc.  You can still do a ton with just that much power, zuck is a child and chickened out. >
  
  If adorable and sometimes sad dog videos and bodybuilding videos and educational stuff is digital fentanyl, then lemme fuckin overdose like a champ.
  If you’re seeing nothin but tits or fucked up shit on tiktok, it’s because you actively search that shit out and watch a lot of it anyways and that’s what the algorithm thinks you wanna see more of. >
  
  Idk I’ve never breathed in TikTok’s and had a temporary pass out >
  
  What a stupid comparison. The chairman has clearly never tried fentanyl. >
  
  It’s a national security risk. Ban it and rendition US based tik tok employees with suspected PLA ties. >
  
  "Digital Fentanyl" - just like Fox News. >
  
  but, if guns don’t kill people and we aren’t banning guns, obviously tiktok shouldn’t be banned right? It’s the user right? >
  
  But In this analogy the gun is being fired by the Chinese Govt. >
  
  Better not let any cops have that app, they'll start flopping around like soccer players. >
  
  Too late >
  
  TikTok, and unregulated social media in general, are major problems both psychologically and security wise, but throwing together War on Drugs word salad like this together doesn't help their case.
  I'm also hesitant when a member of the GOP has the right "overall" opinion about something since even when they want to take action on the right issues, it's typically in a horrendous manner and for awful reasonings. >
  
  Agreed. I do think something needs to be done about tik tok. China doesn't allow tik tok in their own country. China is able to collect data and meta data on US citizens. 
  This is a new world, one in which an opponent could use scientific understanding of psychology to exploit an adversary. China regulates their social media, and turns around to provide the west tik tok, why not weaken the cultural situation of your adversaries, why not foment hatred amongst groups. 
  I definitely don't trust the GOP or any member of the GOP but I feel the same about the CCP as well. >
  
  TikTok is what 99 percenters crave! Is full of electrolytes! >
  
  Go away, I'm baitin' >
  
  lazily lifts up hand to flip you off but is entirely too lazy to lift the digits so I half ass at lifting those too while laughing at ow my balls >
  
  Hmm, Instagram is hexadecimal crack cocaine? >
  
  Twitter is meth? >
  
  Facebook is Krokodil >
  
  Vine is Quaaludes >
  
  …and once again, we see people using the language of the War on Drugs to demonize undesired behaviors as pathologies. >
  
  This is how the GOP phrases everything.  It is consumable by their base and distracts from what really needs to be addressed or worse what they will do to help their patrons behind the scenes.
  Remember their leader Trump had an active Chinese bank account. >
  
  …try pointing out that “porn addiction” isn’t “addiction” on Reddit though and watch brains explode. >
  
  Yeah, I wasted far more time than it was worth the other day trying to get some fool that was claiming "porn addiction" caused a man to murder his wife to show any evidence of that ever happening anywhere. >
  
  Hey I saw that! I'm pretty sure I remember that braindead comment. >
  
  ..... and Twitter is 'virtual Heroin' says the head of the committee for the promotion of language abuse & word salads. >
  
  Just throwing words together >
  
  Truly. If this were the 80s they’d have gone with digital crack. >
  
  An entirely unserious person >
  
  I wonder how many people have OD'd on TikTok. Seems alarming to imagine how painful it is for victims and their families when digital drugs ruin lives like this. My friend got addicted to digital LSD videos on YouTube like this our senior year and his life was changed forever. He only lived another six months before he went to college, got married, had kids, and is now the leader of a digital drug cartel in Djbouti. >
  
  GOP is just scared they can't control the narrative. They're also still salty about how young people used social media to embarrass Trump at his Tulsa rally. >
  
  They probably more scared that there is so much gender affirming, pro-socialist and similarly left leaning content on there.