This Isn’t Gonna Be The Same TikTok.
TikTok leaving and coming back in a span of 24 hours with the “help” of the 🍊 man is a sign of something sinister happening. The app is now tainted by the American government who can now not only get a piece of TikTok but monitor and censor us on a whim.
TikTok is generally left-leaning; that’s why it’s so popular. Now that our right-wing government AND SUCKERBERG got their hands IN IT…it’s about to have the same fate as Twitter.
It also does not help that they snuck in legislation that any foreign app that has over 1M Americans signing up for it and using it can be banned by our government.
Let this show you our government can dangle our freedoms in our faces at any time. If they can mobilize unanimously to ban an app where everyone can come together (and make money without depending on Meta)…they could’ve easily mobilized to lower rent, raise the minimum wage, enact gun control, and make so many of our lives easier.
Think about that.
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