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Furious Congress plows forward with TikTok bill after user revolt

by numlocked on 3/8/24, 5:49 PM with 30 comments

  • by pavel_lishin on 3/8/24, 8:53 PM

    > "So bad we turned phones off … Which means we could miss calls from constituents who actually need urgent help with something," a senior Democratic aide added.

    That's certainly a choice they decided to make.

  • by quantum_state on 3/8/24, 10:02 PM

    The government has no business in dictating what apps we can use ... They are acting like any authoritarian, treating the public like kids ..

  • by ChrisArchitect on 3/8/24, 10:56 PM

  • by Fricken on 3/8/24, 10:39 PM

    At risk of being accused of whataboutism, why is HN so preoccupied with disinformation and political interference from China when Russia has essentially bought off a large chunk of the GOP and has been super effective at sowing division and radicalizing the views of US citizens for a decade now?

    China sucks balls at propaganda in the US. They're terrible at it. You can tell because so many here hate and are terrified of China. Whatever the CCP is trying to do, it isn't working. Yet, on HN, this is all I hear about.

    Meanwhile, Putin, as it turns out, isn't really such a bad guy after all.