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This is so wildly unconstitutional I don’t even know where to start: bill of attainder, separation of powers, no checks and balances, impairment of contracts. Breathtakingly destructive of our entire system of government. And idiot Republicans go along blithely. How stupid can you get.

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Mar 18·edited Mar 18

I am now actually scared for what is to come. It is just weird that they are screaming about Trump becoming a dictator and then pass this law when it would seem plausible that he might be elected. I think Walter might be right about there not being an election as we have known it this year. And Trump is such an idiot that he will make it easy for them. Color me very scared.

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Has anyone asked the Chinese if they want to sell?

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Three reasons to undo any TikTok ban:

1. First amendment.

2. Keep your enemies closer

3.TikTok is not, to my knowledge, part of the Biden Ministry of Truth.

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The CIA wants their narrative control back. 🙄

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They will not ban TikTok. They will cut a deal that gives them what they want, and then loudly proclaim, "We SAVED TikTok!" just before the election, to remind users/voters what great guys and gals they are.

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I have the impression that in the long run this will be known as “The Patriot Act ll. “

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Between this and what I heard on Glenn Greenwald today about the SC conversation I am wondering where a good place to live would be. But does anyone in any country have free speech anymore

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AND, to TOP it OFF, hate speech and mal-information etc are bad... Let's see, how do the anti-intellectual egos that go into politics actually govern? How can they do anything but pay attentions to their lobbyists and secondarily constituents? So when BS comes from The Big Medical egos, since the politicos know no science, they promote whatever lies will do least harm or are more acceptable to the uninitiated gullible citizens who nothing other than what they hear pundits say on their boobtube. Sorry boobs, I don't know your connection to tv idiotdom.

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When Nancy say she is going to make TikTok better by forcing it to us ownership, it is so she can buy the big data from that platform as well as all the other SoMe platforms.

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