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The Daily PollTIKTOK IS RALLYING against a planned ban on the social media platform in the US, asking the US Supreme Court to temporarily block a law that would force its Chinese parent company to sell the popular platform.
The law, which was signed by US President Joe Biden in April, would block TikTok from US app stores and web hosting services unless its owner ByteDance divests from the app by 19 January.
US President-Elect Donald Trump met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida yesterday, telling a press conference before the meeting that his administration would “take a look at TikTok” and that he has a “warm spot” in his heart for the social media platform.
While there’s no planned ban in Ireland, we want to know if you use TikTok.
So today we’re asking: Do you use TikTok?
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No I get all my news off Journal.ie and RTE news.
@Maximilian Kolbe: Oh dear
@Ronan McGrath: probably worst lol
@martin finnegan: “probably worst”
@Ronan McGrath: I’m very week informed I love RTE news. I love seeing them spread left wing ideology, it’s amazing. Long live RTE and protect trans children.
@Maximilian Kolbe: You have a problem with protecting children? Strange, says more about you than it does transgender people, is it that you’re afraid that they’ll turn you transgender? People said depression didn’t exist for years, people said homosexuality didn’t exist, I guess you want to be apart of a group to be proven completely ignorant and wrong.
@Brian D’Arcy: I cleared said ‘protect trans kids’. Can you read?
@Brian D’Arcy: I hear you’re a trans advocate now Father
Tik tok is turning people into zombies , as is ” social ” media generally . Take a look at the amount of people out there , in public, face buried in their phones. Walking into traffic , walking into people , tripping up at pavements … the list goes on . It’s beyond bizarre , how ” smartphones ” have so easily seduced society .
@Basildon Joe:wtf???
@Basildon Joe: ‘the autistic kids’? What a truly awful comment to make
Hey Journal.
For us older folk who don’t quite ‘get’ these things, could you do a piece on all these Social Media platforms?
What they do. How they differ from each other. Their audience. How they came about and who owns them now. Dangers or criticism of each
And so on.
Tik Tok comments are open……. but comment sections for important news is not! Joke!
@Niall Binéad: You can say “thank you” to the users with multiple accounts, spamming any interesting topic with racist slurs or false “facts” they picked up on Twitter.
It makes it really difficult to monitor the comment section.
A lot of news sites went down this path – some close the comments completely for non-paying users.
Great news Enoch Burkes dad jailed. Arracking a female Gardai, such a far right hero.
@FoxyBoiiYT: the faaaaaaar roish lol
I am a grown adult so Tik Tok is not for me.
People are turning into the borg collective with all the social media poison (no I don’t Use it)
Use it sparingly. I Tok before becoming a Tik. Same with social media in general. I know life before social media, so that helps, having such perspective. Being born into it, I think is something different.
I’d be scared I’d end up in Beijing through some kind of dark portal and magic.
Had it, deleted it. Cancer for the brain.
@Mike Cawley: No thanks Ted
Yes, I’ve wasted so many hours scrolling through mindless videos and the weird thing was, I never got bored. I had to delete it in the end.
This shitte should be 100% banned.
@Alex:
Why ? If you don’t like it don’t use it.
@Alex: no
No.
It’s a disinformation machine primarily aimed at children run by the Chinese Government which stores the data of everyone who uses it.
The Chinese government effectively ban their own people from using it by restricting them to a heavily censored version.
It’s almost entirely responsible for the rise of toxic individuals like Andrew Tate and Calin Georgescu.
So naturally the Irish government let them build a data centre in the country as there is such a chronic shortage of employment for construction workers.
@Seamus Enright: so how are dog farting videos disinformation,
?
**TikToxic
Yes, I am on all social media platforms
@Peter Mann: Why did you set up this new account yesterday? It’s not like you didn’t have plenty already.
You’re talking BS as usual, with your ‘Basildon Joe’ profile contradicting this one.
@Brendan O’Brien: you spend all day, every day on here, abusing people, you really are a sad act
@Peter Mann: As an Internet Troll you are in no position to look down on people.
@Peter Mann: Surely you admit that ‘Peter Mann’, ‘Frank Mc Carthy’, ‘Hot Jim’, etc. etc. all belong to one person? You can hardly deny it.
@Sun Rise: bit rich, coming from you
@Brendan O’Brien: dunno mate, go and investigate
@Basildon Joe: you are one sad individual Buster. The …. kinda gives it away in the multiple accounts you have on here. Liking your own comments too, do you have to log out of one account and log back in to like comments or have you them all open at once?
@Basildon Joe: damn right, Joe
@Basildon Joe: Brenny has numerous trolling accounts
@Basildon Joe: so the ‘James rowan ‘ is one of brennys new stock….mmm… its impossible to keep up with them all, I miss the ‘d peader’ and ‘chutes ‘ ones….total fruit & nut jobbies
I’m a boomtown. I use it like clockwork!
@Enoch Kochwomble:
Just be careful, there’s always someone looking at ya
Not going to lie, I use tiktok a lot for entertainment. Probably more than the TV. I’m self aware enough to know that this is not necessarily a good thing and I might be a wee bit addicted. So I’d miss it at first but it would improve my sleep schedule no end if it closed here.
have your say