A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
WHY IS THIS STILL ALLOWED
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Because it’s the only way to get things done in a divided government?
Well, it’s clearly not working.
There is certainly a level of disfunction that it can’t overcome and we may have reached that.
My state has a rule restricting bills to one thing, and it seems to work pretty well.
Well I don’t know which state you mean but a lot of them are not divided the way then federal government is.
Sure, and mine is definitely not divided. But there have been contentious issues despite being predominantly one party.
I’d honestly rather a bill take much longer to pass than have a bunch of nonsense thrown in.
I think it’s a good method for achieving compromise. If the various factions perceive more benefit than cost, the bill passes. Obviously some bad things get snuck in, but you get good things out of it as well.
Even if your personal calculus is that this bill does more harm then good, I don’t think banning this method is a good idea.
I’d be okay with a Congressional rule that makes passage of one bill contingent on another bill to allow for compromise, but each bill should be tracked separately so it’s transparent to voters what’s being passed. There should also be a requirement that the title of the bill sufficiently describes the purchase of the bill.
That way we could still have bundles of bills, but the content of that bundle would be a lot more transparent. Seeing something like “Aid to Ukraine and Israel” also allowing the government to ban adversarial apps does not give constituents the appropriate information to contact their representative, and it’s quite possible the representatives themselves haven’t actually read the full bill if it’s large (but might read relevant portions if they were broken up into reasonably-titled bills).
I could see that being an improvement, although it’s not terribly different from the current system. It might be clearer for the public to understand.
On the other hand, reps would have to explain to their constituents why they voted for the kicking puppies act which people might have trouble grasping.
of course.
Real shit, how can I bypass article paywalls/sign up requests? I click the link, paywall. I find an alternative link: paywall. The internet is so shit
Also as much as I hate TikTok, and the amount of time people spend on it, I think the government starting to censor what applications we can and can’t use is a scary thing. Congressmen have already stated “As soon as the TikTok legislation takes effect, we are going after Facebook and the others”
Can’t remember which one said it but it was an interview on NPR with a congressman.
Welcome to capitalism, where the poor get poorer and so on and so forth :-)
Here’s a copy. When the page has loaded, click on the Reader Mode in Firefox for clutter free reading : https://web.archive.org/web/20240418132447/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/technology/tiktok-ban-ukraine-israel-aid.html
I say this all the time, and people say: “impossible, news outlets need revenue”. To which I will say that is entirely bullshit. We could easily afford grants for news, and provide continuing grants to news sources that rank the highest in 3rd party consumer evaluations.
But they don’t currently.
So if you read it you should pay for it, or someone else will.
Look into noscript (Firefox extension), seems to work well for my local papers website (they use some js to hide the page after it loads, noscript blocks scripts from running).
1ft.io and 12ft.io work for me most of the time.
Otherwise I try one of the archive sites like archive.today or archive.ph but they don’t always work. I can’t even get past the captcha most times.
If reader mode not work, there are some website: https://12ft.io, https://1ft.io, https://removepaywall.com, https://archive.ph
We really need to ban adding unrelated things into one big bill.
Oh for fucks sake who did that?
or:
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Speaker Mike Johnson has indicated that he intends to package the measure, a modified version of a stand-alone bill that the House passed last month, with foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
The move “to package TikTok is definitely unusual, but it could succeed,” said Paul Gallant, a policy analyst for the financial services firm TD Cowen.
TikTok has said that the national security concerns are unfair and that it has spent more than $1 billion on a detailed plan for its U.S. operations that would wall off user data and offer third-party oversight of its content recommendations.
“It is unfortunate that the House of Representatives is using the cover of important foreign and humanitarian assistance to once again jam through a ban bill,” Alex Haurek, a spokesman for the company, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Last year, a federal judge temporarily blocked a statewide ban of TikTok from taking effect in Montana, preventing the nation’s first such prohibition.
Officials from the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence briefed lawmakers in the House and Senate about their concerns, adding fuel to the effort to pass the bill.
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“TikTok changed my life for the better” Jesus fuck
