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JumpCrisscross | on: TikTok goes dark in the US
> Most people will just use Instagram Reels or YouTube shorts. They’re identical

You’re being downvoted. But you’re correct. The vocal minority inflames about this are mostly ideologically offended, based on the calls and letters I’m hearing both blue and red electeds receive.

Karrot_Kream | parent | next
You're a biased party because you've canvased for the bill and I think it's good to call your stake in the matter out.

If it were this simple then Rep Ro Khanna wouldn't still be posting about TikTok. As far as what happens, as with everything else, we'll see. There's a million variables and Hacker ``Social Media was tantamount to the Fall of Man'' News is not the place I'm expecting particularly fruitful, unbiased analysis.

JumpCrisscross | root | parent
> You're a biased party because you've canvased for the bill

Eh, I canvassed for privacy bills and that was a total disaster. I believe in the TikTok ban, but I’m not passionate about it.

> then Rep Ro Khanna wouldn't still be posting about TikTok

If I were advising Ro I would absolutely insist he tweet about it. Particularly off cycle. Anyone in Silicon Valley or a district with rich libertarians, for that matter.

Karrot_Kream | root | parent | next
Ro Khanna doesn't represent the majority of rich libertarian types who would be in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, and Saratoga. The rest of Silicon Valley tends to be suburban, upper class tech workers with large immigrant populations who are only moderately likely to have libertarian views.
JumpCrisscross | root | parent
> rest of Silicon Valley tends to be suburban, upper class tech workers with large immigrant populations who are only moderately likely to have libertarian views

And very likely to not be paying attention to him right now to the degree they’ll remember anything come election. Not for tangential issues. Donors, on the other hand, can give now.

nextworddev | parent
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JumpCrisscross | root | parent
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