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Yes, and that 'movement' went absolutely nowhere bill-wise. For the longest time in the US, the proponent of a ban was the DJT administration, which saw it as a threat to their election chances.

Suddenly Congress' 500+ members come together like a bipartisan Voltron to draft, vote and pass a bill about Tiktok, matching the speed and urgency of military aid bills for foreign countries? When there is a much more domestically significant border security bill that's been stuck for months, in an election year?

It doesn't add up. Congress can make a case for the military aid, it hasn't made one for TT.



See the following WSJ report to get a picture of how this bill passed so quickly:

https://archive.ph/W9qJr

"While the ratio fluctuated, he found that at times it ran 69 to 1 in favor of videos with pro-Palestinian hashtags."




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