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It’s to distract from the government’s unwillingness to hold a public inquiry into China’s election meddling.

Yes, I'm sure that's why the European commission did the same [1] a few days ago, why the US House is debating it now [2], and a number of other govt's have been considering it in the last month or two..

[1] https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/02/23/european-commi...

[2] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3876321-tiktok-ban-mak...

[3] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3845729-texas-governor... https://statescoop.com/florida-tiktok-ban-desantis-digital-r...

Interesting how they all realized this thread at more or less the same time considering how long TikTok been out. "Influencing our democracy" has also been trending heavily.

It's all rather hilarious. The tiktok story is the 2nd headline on Google news for me. The first being something insane about a CCP official, CSIS, and a fat donation the PM's charity fund??

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