The wildly popular short-form video app has been at the center of an ongoing battle, with lawmakers calling for an outright ban, and the company portraying itself as a critical community space, educational platform and just plain fun. In Hong Kong, there’s no need to imagine that reality: TikTok discontinued its services there in 2020.
” Are the kids alright? But for some people, TikTok’s departure was a welcome change. Poppy Anderson, 16, has been using TikTok since its launch in 2018. And, like many others in her generation, she would spend hours “scrolling and scrolling” – even when feeling unfulfilled. “It was very easy to kind of find exactly what you like on there, because the [algorithm-run] For You page kept you there,” she said. “And it’s entertaining, but you don’t really get anything from it.
Land of the free……..🫢
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Kids will just move on to another social media app and be just as consumed with it
Only if this happened with Facebook
TikTok scares the establishment because of its free flow of information. It’s not owned by Blackrock, so the Fascist elites can’t restrict it.
I'm quite sure they'll find the alternative.
I don't have a problem with that.
Hope Canada fallows suit…..
Wow. What will they ever do?
That's 149,999,990 more ppl than CNN has watching.
Sounds amazing, wen can we do it across the country?
Oh no how will so many loser ass adults feed their narcissistic tendencies?
Just an app. If Google map were ever banned, it wouldn’t affect our lives. Just use another map…
What's with omitting the important info about the bill?
🤣 oh dear what a shame!
oh no 😐
There are 600 million users of the China version, which is more content restrictive than the American version. Ask yourself why? 60Minutes did, and it’s not good. But, CNN knows it & I would theorize that they’re trying to keep Chinese revenue coming into it for survival…
And? The problem is what exactly?
Is the problem that the American Federal government can't access the data like they can from other media companies by a court order?
I can't wait for a new reality: life without CNN
What is Tiktok?
By the dictators
The restrict act is a bad idea because it gives unconstitutional authority to the US government to meddle with both domestic and foreign sites and users at a whim with little oversight, not because it targets the Chicom cringefest known as Tiktok.
I cannot wait until all the people in the replies saying this is “no big deal” find out this bill gives the US gov a huge range of ways to spy on American citizens because they claim it’s in the national interest.
Why?So we don't see dark web shit like this I think the public deserves to know what going on..🐸🧠👶
Omg people, grow up ffs 🤦♂️
Ithink they can't do As most of them from youth If they do it's will affect biden Popularity before coming elections
Pedowood
We are just tired of telling mendaciloquence
And Time to stop giving their personal information to our enemies
rare america W
So glad I live in a free country. America seems like a sad life
TOO BAD. Try living without democracy. It’s happening while your face is buried in your smart phones.
Not voting for any politician that supports this
I’ve been living without it just fine, what’s the big deal?
Life without tiktok! Tragic. Mass suicide events, hunger strike protests and civil disobedience? Lol
At some point bill gates wanted to buy it
This is great news.
Didn't you already tweet this exact same thing yesterday?
That why we have a vpn
Good
It’s a stupid move. Who cares if the Chinese know how many times we watch cat videos? Maybe we should focus on their hypersonic weapons.
Wouldn’t that be amazing! TikTok is a virus
i can assure you life without tiktok will be just fine…..
If you seriously think this is JUST about Tiktok, you are truly blind. Read Section 5 of the bill to see what it all covers, and then see what you think. This bill needs to DIE a horrible, painful death!
Can the US Congress answer this question are we safe from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and whatsapp?
It’s not about Tik Tok, would be great if it was but they are lying to ya’ll.
Great, then most of them will suffer poverty again 😏
Good
Lawmakers are mad because TikTok is airing their dirty laundry. Journalists and made because amateurs are doing a better job. Zuckerberg is mad because it makes Meta look like crap.
We’re a country of 350m what do the others think about TikTok?
Believe it or not there was life before TikTok. We just called them home movies
Works for me.
The tik tok bill is horrendous.
How will people possibly cope?
Patriot act 2.0!
So what. You're just a Chinese brown noser...
FB/IG Reels
suicide charts will increase ... but brain use will be higher
there is no way 150 mil people in USA use tiktok
Hope that comes to pass It was created by the Chinese and they can not be trusted
Life without Tick whatever is great, isn’t it?
Oh my God, life without the toc. Lol your a bunch of children.
the horror!
Nah that bill ain't even about tik tok. Trying to cover up for a bunch of other shit. I was in favor of banning tik tok before but not that dumb bill
Who cares?
Good.
Thank goodness! Not CNN… liberal pariahs have no rational behavior, so they need social challenges and immoral fantasies. Those are the employees of CNN and MSNBC. Ask them. Entertainment-based conversations through liberal fixations and distractions.
China is not our friend.
You mean people will actually need to put down their phones and engage in real social activities?! I’m shocked
NO THANKS
Oh no how will they ever recover?
- that app is poisoning the youth - get rid of it JoeBiden KamalaHarris
Lol ok
Who cares honestly ✌️
E il tramonto electronic..
Nah. It’s about legalizing what Snowden exposed a decade ago.
Wait until they hear the Tik-Tok ban 'thing' being nothing more than a psyop for the new Protect Act, which is more or less the Patriot Act for digital platforms & devices... a thoroughly invasive initiative purposed to circumvent private citizen protection from the government.
They will be fine. Tik tok is a waste of time
Why doesn't an American company start a competing app, just like it?
Oh what ever will they do when they would have to deal with actual reality instead of faked made up BS.
This is not about TikTok!!!!! This is a total lie. Yes we won't be able to use TT but who gives a fuck.. The restrict act will make it so our government can put anyone of us Americans in jail for up to 20 years and a 1 million dollar fine!! That's not all
people will live just fine or even better without TikTok
You already posted this
Again reading these comments The sheeple are unaware
CNN: lets post it again. We will get a better ratio this time. I promise.
Good
I will literally kill myself
When a social media app is being regulated more than deadly assault weapons
Personally I'm not a ChinaTok user, but I don't know about the government enforcing a complete ban. Seems like they could use this to come after other things in the future if they want to.
thank god I’m an older millennial who’s never downloaded it
Praise be!
Lol get a job losers
Oh no you mean no more acting stupid?
But there still anothet social media they could use it
😂
Good
Wow, how will anyone survive?!!!
Oh, the horror!! 🤣🤣
If TikTok does get banned. These kids might benefit immensely. I imagine their focus and attention span going up. 20 seconds videos can’t be good for the any brain.
I never had a TikTok life so I won't miss it!
Sounds good...now do guns.
'A new reality' 🤡
That's about 1% of what will happen. The RESTRICT ACT will allow the government to control speech, eliminate financial freedom, and allow the government access to your most personal information. Patriot Act 2.0.
I’m sure everyone will continue on just fine
So?
Bans don't work! People are gonna get guns anyway!
TikTok is trash. TBH 🤦🏽♂️
Everyone will pull through just fine.
NEVER TRUST CHINA!!!
👏👏👏👏👏YES NOTHING BUT JUNK ON IT!!
If this is a crisis for anyone not making a living on that app.... they need to talk to a professional.
They can just use vpn lol
Oh no! What will we do? We can’t watch Twinks prance around or girls doing stupid dances?! 🤦🏻♂️GTFO
How is this newsworthy, just use one of the plenty of other shitty alternatives we've had forced down our throats by youtube and facebook
China bans Facebook, Twitter, Google etc because they are afraid of people speaking 🗣️ The US is following Xi Jinping's path of controlling people. It's not about TikTok collecting your data. It's about the government controlling information you relay. 1984vibes
Oh no how will we ever survive?
It’s just owned by the communist Chinese government who just want to continue to watch this country shoot itself in the foot.
Good
The bipartisan RESTRICT bill would allow the US government to block any website they want, without any kind of oversight. It'll expand surveillance on citizens and the use of a VPN can bring 20 years. The broad language of that bill will be weaponized. Not just 'TikTok bills.'
Good finally best news ever
The world thanks you if it ends!!
In China, there's a saying “抖音一響，父母白養”, means 'Once TikTok rings, parents raise their children for nothing'
This will end👇
Lol
China can restrict all non-Chinese social media with thier orwellian law. But when the US did the similar (not orwellian) in return, the US is the devil. Double standard.
Yeah and across the western world, we are all dumping google, facebook & Microsoft. They are nothing but spyware for the US government... bye bye
Make a new app
Now they'll just be left with shooting each other
Life without TikTok would be fun
Nope, its here to stay and yall boomers cant do nothing bout that,, s
And they will be ok.
So much for freedom.
I hope China can also do same at their end so that we can have our peace of mind.
Get rid of it and watch all your influences be fucked lmao get a proper job 🤣
You won’t miss it - move on.
😂 so many more … we do not care.
Like the end of Pixar Wall-E
Lol are they banning vpn's too?
You speak of it as if it's some sort of calamity
American no confident
elonmusk Twitter , with this ban Twitter will over night restore paid price of 44B $ ! Bad decisions🇺🇸 for Tik-Tok, excellent for Twitter and Truth !
The average IQ of Gen Zs might go up a bit.
Hey elonmusk/Twitter This outlet should aldo be labeled 'US State-Affiliated Media ' ASAP!
Have yet to see anything intelligent on that platform. Won't miss it if it's gone.
Or you know, all of America ten years ago?
Oh my ... A world without tiktok how are we going to cope ?
Once TikTok starts paying all the politicians like other social media companies everything will be ok.
tik tok is a chinese trojan horse it can't be banned in the affected brains children are already infected this is unfortunately not a chinese balloon
Operation Northwoods (1962)
The bill is terrible but so is tiktok.
Trying to cure the leftists commies mental illness - narcissistic anti Americans, thinking communism is good - nope - not going to happen
Has nobody read what’s in the TikTok ban bill? It’s the end of free America.
They can do without it
Never used it. Next story
If you can't beat it... Ban it! Welcome to American capitalism in 2023....
There was a life before TikTok… next
Someone will just simply create another one
Restrict Act is a nightmare
So glad, I never had it, never will. Hopefully this brings back society to normal again
And comments are filled with people who don't have tik tok 😀
O no. Chinese Psyop app may get banned. Who cares.
Maybe they’ll jump on Twitter and stop being deceived by MSM now, let’s hope.
Oh, no. Back to reality? What are we going to do without dance challenges and eating TidePods?
Iam sorry to hear that so many people are using a software that has been disabled.
It was never in my life
Change is 👍
How are they going to ban the apl in the world where people have VPNs?
Oh thank goodness. Never had it never will. Hope it goes away forever
US is starting to isolate themselves
Grow up. They'll get over it
That’s good for everyone
The horror! What will we do without a constant stream of seizure-inducing brain slop that makes us depressed, anxious, and mentally ill?
I learned where babys come from with toc tiç
Bring back vine
Did you know that even the Chinese people in China don't use tiktok? They know it's garbage. Check it yourself, I did.
Well then I suggest the US come up with a replacement, cuz I like my Tik Tok. Is our government really worried about China? Or just mad that we can get real time truths instead of relying on the lying media and said government 🤔 I think we have more to worry about...
Tiktok is here✓ to stay
Oh how terrible for them.🙄 How will they ever survive without living out their narcissistic fantasies on an iPhone ? 🤣🤣🤣
It's a harsh dystopian future to be sure as society collapses into a danceless heap...
It's wild that Americans will be denied access to any online resource. Are we talking about America's version of the great firewall?
‘Oh to the no.’
Fascist States of America!
I never used that app anyways so I'd be fine lol. But I do know that a lot of other people do tho.
Great!
Oh darn.
Can we also get rid of Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, Onlyfans, and all the similar like apps. Life was better without all this trash. 80's ❤️
They are using tik tok to push through many other regulations on the internet a la the patriot act. Dont let it happen people!
Newsflash tiktok banned in China 🇨🇳
Ban all social media. The American society will thrive without it.
You know that bill has nothing to do with tiktok.. post the details you fake piece of shit news source
Is this a serious story from CNN?
Why is such a big deal. The bigger deal is the legislation they are writijg that can be used against other socials and ppl in the future
If so, part of the country’s War like impulses may be triggered!😱
If it was an app owned by Elon I am sure American government won’t have a problem with it
Thats not the main takeaway and you fucking know it
How will we go on?
翻墙来中国继续用
They'll survive y'all just gotta stop being kids and start being adults
Tiktok can suck eggs
I can not believe this is a real headline/story. You make it sound like a law was passed that no one is alllowed to own a pet. TikTok is nothing more than a spy tool by CCP.
Boo fuckin hoo
Never had that app because it’s bad enough with others
I'm Chinese, I can't access the overseas version of Tiktok, only YouTube and Instagram.
How can leftists groom kids into LGBTQ++ ideology without TikTok 😭
Good. Internet addiction is killing our children.
the horror 🤣🤣🤣
Wait—I thought people agreed that it would be a huge mistake—with an unConstitutional power grab…
Wow life without TikTok… I can’t begin to imagine… 😂
Would be nice if it was without CNN too
That would be a step towards a sane society.
And what a better life it would be
It was offering too big a challenge for Twitter and Facebook so the bosses ran to the lawmakers?
Ya, there’s a crisis 🤦🏻♀️
Slow news day? This isn't happening. Forget 150 million. Having 1 million people worry about life without it is big.
Take a nature walk! Learn to communicate verbally with each other! You will enjoy some much needed free time!!Tik Tok is a time waster! Less mind control! China doesn’t need to know all your business, right⁉️🙏🇺🇸
If a communist country is using that to spy on us, isn’t banning the app a good thing?
Whatever will they do?
Wow, maybe people will actually talk to one another? Novel idea.
Crazy this bill has absolutely nothing to do or even mention TikTok. You guys need to start reporting the actual news.
What the youth mite have to be at the dinner table without TIkTok? A family meal could be about family again and not silly videos?
There's always youtube
Yeah
So
POTUS get Titok off of Apple and Google stores. That should do it.
CNN where are you CNN on the coverage of the inhumane treatment on the Palestine people ? Shame on CNN
How can we not drug
Sounds wonderful to me
Oh no how will stupid kids find stupid things to do.
You can pry my tiktok from my cold dead hands.
Good!
add facebook and instagram to the list. the garbage bins of social media
That’s all an excuse. The government is mad that all sorts of information is being shared abs seen by the younger generation and it’s affecting our own governments indoctrination tactics
It’s called playground and friends.
The horror! 😂😂
They don’t have 150 million US users JFC
Meh TikTok is stupid
Damn CNN is the worst
I hate TikTok. It's not that it's run by a hostile foreign totalitarian dictator, it's that the content is vacuous. Also, did I mention that it's run by a hostile foreign totalitarian dictator?
Meanwhile everyone is cool with the NSA
Nooooooooooooo!
When Trump was against tiktok, all the democrats and democrat news stations like CNN thought he was overreacting. So either admit he was correct or admit that Biden is also overreacting. You can't have it both ways.
More to that bill the tik tok ban is cover for more nefarious bans included in that bill, they want access to everything you do on the internet no matter the device.
Hahaha losers
It’s not about tic tok
Good. China is an enemy of the United States and is actively trying to destroy us
Big whoop
Who cares
Read this bill people it has a lot of hidden information about controlling what people can or can not do on the internet including banning cryptocurrency and bringing in a government cbdc. It is Treasonous.
Oh no
Life without TikTok and life with Heather as President.
Have people really not read the bill? The can designate anyone they don't like as a threat, VPNs can carry 20 years in prison? This is worse than patriot act.
Good! People need to get off
This is a ploy to censor and erase social media, wake up.
'TikTok is the only place we have free speech' say so many of you freely on Twitter ....
Good...leave the drugs
Dsmmmm sarcastic
Great news
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They will live.
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
The people don't even get it, its not about TikTok
Tragic😝😝😝😝
This won't just ban tiktok
I see a business opportunity opening up.
This BS and the restrict act is one of the biggest overreaches by our govt in our history
Goodbye free speech as well.
Oh my lord ,the world will end. 😆
The RESTRICT act will allow the government to do WAY more than ban tiktok. Patriot Act 2.0. Get ready to have zero privacy and zero financial freedom.
Oh the humanity
On the plus side: current U.S. TikTok users will get back three hours of useable time, per day. Especially college students.
Oh for goodness sake, whatever shall you do with yourself if you can't waste hours mindlessly scrolling through people making fools of themselves on Chinese spyware!
good. Social media is the scourge of this country. Now to do something about Musk
I’d rather trade musk and zuck for a Chinese owned company
Banning TikTok is one thing, I applaud this. But the way the law was written around this, that is concerning. I implore you to not allow any more freedoms to be taken from you. Legislation is being passed that allows for the government complete reign in your day to day lives.
Just let people use whatever apps they please. They are adults
Yawn…
Which apps will cash this opportunity?
Ban assault rifles & guns, no TikTok, books, abortion!
Because the company won't bribe congress like the nra does.
Reality. It’s kind of fun.
the only way to stop the revenue machine, is to ban its user lmaooo meanwhile googles can send you ads based on what it hears from your smart phone
Good. Ban it.
Holy shit, what hard hitting journalism you've done here.
That would be a welcome change.
How sad for them? Maybe they will get jobs and contribute to society.
🙄
Oh no! Anyway...
There are way more people than that in American. Embarrassing tweet
The msm clowns and leftist gov totalitarians don't want a free flow of uncensored information. It's the people VS. You, the only protection left is your waning divisionist tactics. We are f'ing sick of it, and more of us are uniting every day. Killing tik tok will boil it over.
CNN is Next!⬇😬🫣🫢
What a stupid time to be alive.
Oh no how will we survive
Oh dear......
The restrict act has nothing to do with Tik Tok.They want to be able to ban any app they consider a threat to national security.Which can mean anything. In the act you would get 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for using a vpn to hide it.This is extension of the patriot act
Please ban tik tok already
who cares
All state offices and federal offices have banned TikTok so why are they letting a foreign influence our kids and adults? Time to ban Tik Tok because they are up to no good and that's already been proven 100%
Boo fucking hoo
How about life without the young dead cut up beside the house and god and man do nothing but let it break down with nature, so nature is the true god,and the masonic leader is the virus the razor wire around his belt
What a nightmare!
How about the new possibility of people being sent to jail for using vpns And tge chiar of the chamber of commerce being able to decide to seize local businesses and websites, all In the restrict act aka patriot act 2.0
Pretty sure those 150 million won't be joining your 0.5 million viewing audience.
good
You don't miss what you never had
Works for me🤷♂️
Good
Elon should partner with Tik toc… the truth bomb. Get your satellite 7g phone built already Mr Musk.
Oh no I don’t know how I will go on without that mindless drivel.
Great!
What's CNN?
But how else can the useless youth show off their dancing skills, or seek validation through viral staged videos?
Resist
Tik Tok sucks. 🤐
Gotta love the condescension 🙄
What am I going to do without tiktok?
Lol
I suspect Twitter and Facebook also getting a ban? Just gotta make it fair for everyone
Don't panic folks you still have guns, political parties and pawn to keep you entertained. And I'm sure anyone who wants to access data for nefarious purposes can just go do it via all the other world connected online sources.
The issue isn't for everyday Americans. The issue is that in your terms of service you gave tiktok access to every device including computers on your network. So when you walk on to a college campus and connect to the wi-fi, TikTok has access to all those devices and information
LMFAO!
😱🥱🤣
Touch grass 😭
Never had it on my phone. I will live.
TikTok is a cancer on children across the world.
Yall are glossing over the REAL story. S686 the RESTRICT ACT AKA PATRIOT ACT 2.0 Excessive govt overreach into our personal lives completely stepping on any privacy. This is not a left vs right, black vs white, or old vs young thing. This about ALL OF US. EVERYONE
China rejoices you ran this
And 300M+ with the possibility of a recession.
总比没有自由好！
What’s the difference between them and meta harvesting data?
Not me.
We will be ok.
LOL ...... oh the shock and horror ..... what are worried they might start thinking again?
Yeah cause no other social media platform invades our privacy and you all want play you won’t silence the left we will stand strong
Perfect
They'll live.
Life would be better without
How about life without CNN
I didn’t realize we had 150,000,000 retrds in this country.
Headline: CNN finds new ways to spin the RESTRICT Act in a positive light in spite of glaring First Amendment concerns by anyone who's actually read the damn thing.
TikTok wasn't here before. People can do without it.
I'm sure they'll get over it.
🤣
Go touch grass
Haha Libs
Tik tok should be banned as company, but not as an infringement on what internet site Americans have access too.
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
“While the RESTRICT Act does not explicitly outlaw the use of VPNs, it is drafted broadly enough to raise concerns that using a VPN to access TikTok or other services restricted in the US under the Act could result in severe consequences,” Willmary Escoto, a U.S. policy analyst”
Sweet lol
Good.
Good
at what price?
It’s not about TikTok, folks. The RESTRICT Act is very very bad for freedom and the rights afforded Americans under the Constitution. You must contact your representatives and pressure them to not pass this.
Well, thats a deep subject.
The horror!
Big deal! Lol
Oh poor people, what’s going to happen to them?
Good.
How are trans people going to validate themselves? That’s what TikTok was for.
Never tried it, won’t miss it
It’s called “get a life”
Ban TikTok but not assault rifles lol
Yeah but what else does the restrict act do?
But guns r perfectly legal!!!!!!✋🏿✋🏿✋🏿✋🏿✋🏿✋🏿✋🏿✋🏿
If CNN is “reporting” this, it means the regime wants Biden gone.
OMG! A travesty! How will we ever live with TikTok? How horrible!!! Grow the hell up.
Just a way to distract the masses from other issues.
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