I am Koko. I've been a geek longer than many of you have been alive. Female, autistic, ace, 30s, chill. I really don't like fanpols, terfs or exclusionists, so if you're one this isnt the blog for you. I'm liberal leaning, (a nice mix of liberal and libertarian) but I hate most political parties. If you can't civilly disagree then get the hell off my blog. You have been warned. Ask me to tag things that bother you and I will.
So it's not an outright ban like people are saying, although it is stupid. It's an order to divest from the CCP or it'll be pulled from the app stores.
Why are people acting like Biden made this decision 100% by himself? Basic civic lesson here, the US president does not choose bill content, he signs bills into law. Congress chose to do this. It's a known dirty trick of the legislative branch to attach ridiculous things to bills likely to pass.
A comprehensive privacy bill would have accomplished the same thing and been actually GOOD for security but American Big Tech wants to harvest and sell data and their lobbyists would fight that.
if you're wondering why THIS tiktok ban bill made it through the senate unlike last time...
The secret to a peaceful tumblr experience is that every once in a while you gotta be deeply fucking cringe on main so only the strong will keep following you.