PUBLISHED: March 12, 2024 | baltimoresun.com
If you use TikTok, you may have seen a notification that said, “speak up now — before your government strips 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression.” This came right after the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously, and on a bipartisan basis, voted 50 to zero to advance legislation that would require TikTok to completely divest from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or otherwise the app would be flat-out banned in the United States.
Now, congressional offices are reporting that they are receiving thousands of calls from TikTok users as a result of the notification, with some threatening to kill themselves and at least one person threatening to assassinate a member of Congress. What TikTok doesn’t realize is that these tactics only further embolden congressional representatives to move on legislation faster. They know well that they’re the ones in power, not TikTok, and that they will never, ever, kowtow to the mob tactics that TikTok is using against them.
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