What's really disgusting is how many people support the "anti-Tik Tok bill" just because they hate Tik Tok, or they hate China's government, or whatever the reason. These people are so short-sighted that they can't see through all the obvious propaganda to comprehend the many ways this bill can and WILL be used to restrict online activity on any platform that they conveniently deem connected to a "foreign adversary."

It's like we forgot all about things like McCarthyism and the Patriot Act, and if you try to explain this to people, they just dig their heels in and say they "don't see anything in the bill that's concerning."

The whole thing is concerning! No matter how one feels about Tik Tok, this is absolutely not a thing that the government should be doing, not something we should be naively supporting. People's support for this ban makes me facepalm so hard it could rip a hole in the fabric of space and time.

"Show me a citation that proves this bill will be abused." Of course, I can't do that, and neither can anyone else. But with the tiniest bit of historical knowledge, we should know better. We should know how this will play out.

Are we so numb to the fact that we're already surveilled, which started after 9/11 and has never ended? Are we numb to the fact that McCarthyism has never ended? (If you don't believe me, look into how we effectively bar self-reported communists and anarchists from residency and citizenship.) Just gonna keep throwing more fuel onto the fire, are we? Maybe it's a fetish, like "oppress me harder, daddy!"

Sorry, I know I'm being melodramatic, but it's unfathomable to me how ignorant we can be about things like this.