Original article Timing really is everything. A week on from TikTok’s short-lived ban over fears of Chinese harvesting U.S. data, despite consistent denials from the platform and its parent that it’s doing anything of the sort, here comes another app that admits to doing exactly that. And if you still think TikTok […]
“TikTok Considering Total Shutdown in U.S. Sunday if Ban Moves Forward”
Original article TikTok is preparing to potentially make the app unavailable to its 170 million American users on Sunday, the same day a U.S. ban is set to go into effect, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s planning who spoke with NBC News. A law signed by […]
“A Year in Review — 2024 Tech, Social Media Legislation”
Original article Landmark policy and legislation moved forward to regulate and monitor social platforms in the past year. While some bills have stalled, others have moved forward and are slated to make a big impact in the coming year. Advocates from the region have played a major role in the […]
“TikTok CENSORS Account For Discussing Harrison Butker’s Graduation Speech”
Kate Hildreth, host of The Rogue Millennial, argues that while banning platforms like TikTok could potentially be an attack on freedom of speech, TikTok itself is censoring people. Hildreth explains her own experience of creating a TikTok account, only to be permanently banned less than 24 hours later for “violating […]
Majority Support Banning TikTok from App Stores
(Austin, TX—July 20, 2022) Convention of States Action, in partnership with The Trafalgar Group—one of America’s most accurate pollsters in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2021—is releasing the results of a new national survey. Results were from surveys conducted July 7th through July 10th of over 1,000 likely 2022 election voters. […]