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US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Lulzagna@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Agreed. We're both being downvote because we're not part of the hive mind.

Most of the links provided are about how children were easy to advertise to and TikTok was not properly protecting them. That's a completely different discussion than "tiktok is targeting children".

I want to be a supporter of keeping children safe, but I don't think banning tiktok will help anything other than create 5 new platforms that will make letting kids safe even harder

Edit: that last argument is a straw man, but you get the point