TIKTOK NOT THE PROBLEM GOVERNMENTS ARE!
April 7, 2024The debate raging in the corridors of Capitol Hill in America over TikTok is also being discussed in the Australian Parliament creating strange bedfellows and blurring ideological lines.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in March by an overwhelming 352-65 vote that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to sell its ownership in the social media platform or face having the app banned in the U.S.
Australian Greens Party leader, Adam Bandt, decided to weigh-in on the debate stating he believed that the problem was not TikTok but rather GOVERNMENTS.
HANDS-OFF TIKTOK!
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English Script:
Adam Bandt: If you want to know why people are completely fed up with politics, you need look no further than the US government’s TikTok ban. People just want free health care and a good life, but instead they get senators who don’t know how Wi-Fi works trying to ban a social media platform that they don’t understand.
Mr. Hudson: Mr.Chew, does TikTok access the home Wi-Fi network?
Adam Bandt: What a joke. And what an embarrassment that Labor and Liberal MPs are even humoring the idea here in Australia missing from Asian security and privacy are issues for every social media platform. We should better regulate them all, not just those owned by a company that’s a political problem for the US. We should be consistent. My message to any government that’s been called out online for the issues that people care about, like the invasion of Gaza is this TikTok’s not the problem.It’s the government. And if your response to criticism isn’t to listen and take action, but instead to talk about taking away the megaphone, then you’ve got a lot more problems than you might think. We are indebted to brave citizen journalists who’ve risked their lives to bring the reality of Gaza to our face. It was there truth telling that spurred the world to action when governments wanted us to look away. We are better for the activists and the content creators who use their platform to educate, connect, entertain and advocate for the change we need. We will always fight to protect you. Government shouldn’t ban TikTok. They should learn from it. Authorized by J. McColl, Australian Greens. Canberra.
