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TikTok and Its Implications for the USA

It wasn't until just now, after my edible has landed, that I searched the 'tiktok' tags on tumblr. And there wasn't ANYTHING about the hearing.

Y'all. If you're not on TikTok right now, it's like 2012 Tumblr right now. I grew to love Tiktok because it reminded me of my experience on Tumblr as a young adolescent, learning to become a better person for the first time. So please, Tumblrian to Tumblrian, if you value Tumblr and the interactions and conversations you've had here, hear me out.

Tumblr is where I first started learning outside of the bubble I was raised in, started questioning things about the government and authoritative power structions, started learning about the world and the different people who live here. And Tiktok had their CEO give a testimony to the Commerce and Energy Committee in the US Congress.

The entire hearing was embarrassing, with the elderly politicians incapable of addressing the app by its own name (continually saying 'Tic Tac' instead) and stumbling over saying 'algorithm' (seriously who in the last 20 years hasn't become familiar with the concept and usage of the word? These politicians are so old beyond school and so in a bubble detached from the reality of every day Americans), despite TikTok being the largest social media, and even media influencer, since the invention of the Internet (or at least Facebook).

The committee members reeked of Cold War propoganda and demonstrated numerous microaggressions against the the CEO of TikTok, Shou Chew. Despite the newly dubbed 'Tiktok Daddy' Chew being from Taiwan, the bipartisan interrogators had no consideration that English wasn't his first language and barrelled through their barked questions. They steered the narrative to be about about China/the Chinese Community Party and the safety of children (which apparently China is responsible for, not the parents?).

Yes these same politicians who refuse to pass any legislation or introduced bills to protect American children from school shootings. America has had 100 shootings so far this year, before the end of March 2023, and is only growing.

There's so much to unpack in this and I'm sorry this is so long but I will make a second post to try to explain more if you have yet to have heard anything about the Tiktok hearing. They're likely going to ban Tiktok and hand the US government the ability to ban any social media in America that they want.

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