canflam

No plans currently to travel, hopefully I will be able to. I am just looking forward to dry weather for a week straight.

wickedrum

I watched the Oscars as well

broken crown

Hi everyone!!!

canflam

Hey there. What is up? I saw that TikTok is going to almost certainly be banned here in the U.S. Figures, but will just watch more videos I suppose. Going to watch a movie shortly. Maybe "Belle".

wickedrum

Who’s banning it? Individual states or all?

canflam

Congress has voted to ban it. It is a situatuon where most Democrats & Republicans there have agreed to ban it.

wickedrum

Censorship of the truth, is it?

canflam

Not exactly. They are worried about the Chinese government I think.

broken crown

Well, it still has to be taken up in the Senate too before anything can really be enforced. So, we'll see what happens.

wickedrum

What’s it got to do with the Chinese government?

canflam

This: ''The app is owned by ByteDance, which is based in Beijing and therefore falls under China's controversial cybersecurity laws. These laws, among other things, contain provisions that could potentially require TikTok to hand over U.S. user data to the Chinese Communist Party upon request.''

wickedrum

Huh. I still wonder if that’s just the excuse they give. Sure, it’s not wonderful if the Chinese government has some basic data, but covertly it’s the live broadcasts of real events that they are really worried about

broken crown

I heard some businessman is already trying to put together a group to buy it.

wickedrum

Buy what

broken crown

Buy TikTok.