[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to say: DO NOT ban TikTok!

Dear MoveOn member,

Among all of the pressing issues impacting people across the country, the
House of Representatives decided to waste taxpayer dollars by passing an
unconstitutional bill to ban the social media app TikTok. This latest
stunt is not only a waste of time, it would violate and limit the free
speech of the over 150 million Americans who use the app.^1 

[ [link removed] ]But it's not too late. We can come together to stop this. Will you sign
the petition to say NO to a TikTok ban NOW?

After members of Congress in the House of Representatives voted to pass
the ban on TikTok it was revealed that some of those who voted for the
TikTok ban may own $29 million to $126 million worth of stock in TikTok’s
competitors like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Snapchat.^2 This
means that many of the same politicians who voted for a TikTok ban would
financially benefit from it. It’s unacceptable.

[ [link removed] ]Will you add your name to the petition to say DO NOT ban TikTok?

If lawmakers want to address real concerns about Big Tech companies and
data security, they need to make those laws instead of banning individual
apps. Congress could pass strong privacy and antitrust laws instead of
wasting their energy AND taxpayer money doing something no regular working
person wants or needs.

[ [link removed] ]The government should not be able to dictate how we express ourselves
online. Click here to sign the petition to say NO to a TikTok ban.

TikTok is a place where millions of Americans have gone to find community,
education, to grow their small businesses, and to organize on issues that
affect our communities. TikTok should NOT be banned and our free speech
should NOT be violated.

[5]Sign the petition

Members of Congress are claiming that banning TikTok is an issue of
national security and data privacy, meanwhile little has been done to pass
a comprehensive data law that protects us from all social media companies.

In 2018, it was revealed that a data analytics firm that worked with
Donald Trump’s election team harvested 50 million Facebook profiles of
American voters. This was one of Facebook’s biggest data breaches ever,
and the data was used to build a software program that influenced the 2016
election by targeting them with political advertisements.^3

[ [link removed] ]TikTok shouldn’t get singled out when privacy, data tracking, and data
harvesting are issues with ALL social media platforms. Click here and sign
the petition to say NO to a TikTok ban.

The truth is, data privacy is a huge issue. Companies track our data, our
conversations, the things we view on social media platforms and use it to
target us, and then sell our information to third parties all the time.^4
But this isn’t just a TikTok issue. It’s a Big Tech issue. And just
banning TikTok won’t fix it. Only passing strong national privacy
legislation will truly protect us and our data, not banning individual
apps. And together, we can demand it.

[ [link removed] ]In the meantime, we must come together to ensure that members of
Congress don’t avoid the real issues at hand and that they don’t violate
our free speech by banning TikTok. Click here to sign the petition.

And while some politicians have a financial incentive to pass a TikTok
ban, small businesses–and the people who run them–would take a major hit.
Over 5 million small businesses have TikTok accounts and TikTok generated
$14.7 BILLION in revenue just last year which created over 224,000 U.S.
jobs.^5,6

Suddenly banning TikTok and taking away that source of income could be
financially devastating for millions of people across the country. We
can't let that happen.

[ [link removed] ]Will you sign the petition to demand that TikTok NOT be banned?

There are plenty of issues that are front of mind for Americans across the
country today. Our bodily autonomy is under attack, from attacks on
abortion care to attacks on IVF to attacks on gender-affirming care.
LGBTQ+ youth are under attack. Systemic racism is harming Black,
Indigenous, and brown people. There are millions of Americans who either
have no healthcare or are underinsured. Americans are being crushed by
over a trillion dollars in student debt. Rent prices are soaring and
higher than ever while the federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up from $7.25
in 15 years. We are still in a pandemic. Communities still don’t have
access to clean water. Climate change due to fossil fuels is destroying
our communities. 

Instead of focusing on what everyday Americans need most, Congress is
wasting time passing a TikTok ban.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to tell members of Congress to DROP the TikTok ban
NOW. Then send it to three friends to spread the word.

Thanks for all you do.

–Jensine, Nakia, Isbah, Sana, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Banning TikTok is a Really Bad Idea," ACLU, May 11, 2023
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2. "Politicians Who Voted to Ban TikTok May Own as Much as $126 Million in
Tech Stocks," Gizmodo, March 22, 2024
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3. "Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge
Analytica in major data breach," The Guardian, March 17, 2018
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4. "Opinion: Banning TikTok isn’t just a bad idea. It’s a dangerous one,"
CNN, April 16, 2023
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5. "How A U.S. TikTok Ban Could Stomp Out 5 Million Small Businesses,"
Forbes, March 25, 2024
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6. "Debunking 4 myths about TikTok," ABC News, March 15, 2024
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