Yeah but like a big, thick one

By and large America is a nation of mutts, you know “melting pot” and all. Not that we don’t have issues (good lord there are issues), but personally the diversity is one of my favorite parts of living here.

Imagine walking face-first into an invisible spiderweb

What wanking does to a mf smh

Fr though that’s a cool bird

Let’s back up, I think we’re getting hung up on the semantics of the word “fair” here. I’m not asking for “equality”, I’m asking for the passage of rights and regulations protecting United States citizens from everything that TikTok is accused of, and then holding every company operating in the United States to that standard. I don’t want the government cherry-picking which companies they’ll protect us from, I want digital privacy rights to protect me from ALL of them!!! 👇 That’s impartial governing. 👇 That’s fair. Legislation singling out TikTok specifically is a pathetic bandaid solution at best, but I’m afraid that it’s really a dishonest abuse of power, and that it’s precedent will lead to more entities getting banned arbitrarily.

Don’t get me wrong, fuck TikTok, I don’t use it myself, but this legislation is clearly bullshit not written with our protection in mind, and I swear we’re seeing the Constitution erode before our eyes (you know, more than it already has).

That’s where I’m at. If in an alternate universe Congress did something like banning the distribution of harvested data, even just to foreign entities, and TikTok then refused to comply, then I’d be fully in support with them getting banned for it.

Here in the real world though, Congress apparently doesn’t have the balls to pass blanket privacy rights like that, because you see, that’d catch some of the wrong fish. I think it says a lot about the state of modern social media that all they were willing to go after TikTok for was something as nebulous as “national security risk”.

(double comment, my bad)

Why does the government need to be impartial…

…uuummm, because it’s fair and just? Ngl, I’m not sure how else to answer that because I’ve never heard somebody argue against fair and consistent application of the law before. Maybe I’m just being an idealist here, but when somebody compromises health and safety, they should get disciplined because it’s against the law to compromise health and safety; Not because they happened to catch the attention of Congress.

Edit: Actually let me ask you because I need to know: Why shouldn’t the government be impartial in matters of health and safety? In what situations should the violations of health and safety by some parties be ignored and those of other parties be exaggerated? Because, you know, that’s what “partial” means.

Preach

That’s my point! We can’t just have the government wack-a-moling businesses like that, that’s not impartial governing.

If banning the harvest of user data was the real reason for going after tiktok, they would’ve banned harvesting user data. Meta infamously sells their’s to the highest bidder. Are you certain they don’t sell to China? They’ve been caught lying about what they do with it before

I have lots of issues with modern cars. Horsepower is not one of them. Idk if you can right now, but pretty recently you could spec a 300hp minivan from most major automakers.

I’m not convinced that it’s even warm

Right? If logging keystrokes is “wrong”, then ban that! I’ve never downloaded TikTok in my life but this entire thing is so transparently manufactured.

No you removed!

I’ve dailyed six manual cars and two of them didn’t have a tach (both Fords?), and one of those was too old to even have a shift light. Honestly, even when I was new I barely looked at the tach when I had one anyway, and I didn’t really start to look at until I learned how to really get good at rev-matching for heal-toe and dropping gears. I just shift by ear and ass like 90% of the time.

Rad

Henry Ford is dead dude

Chaotic good and neutral evil. Don’t do neutral evil