Instead of focusing on what everyday Americans need most, Congress is wasting time passing a TikTok ban. Sign the petition to say: DO NOT ban TikTok!
Dear John,
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
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, including 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.
Will you add your name to the petition to tell Congress NOT to ban TikTok?
If the goal is to address legitimate concerns around Big Tech and data security, Congress should enact strong privacy and antitrust laws, not ban 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.
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.
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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
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, and the things we view on social media platforms all the time, and use it to target us and then sell our information to third parties.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.
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. More than 5 million small businesses have TikTok accounts, and TikTok generated $14.7 BILLION in revenue just last year, which created more than 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.
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.
–MoveOn
Sources:
- "Banning TikTok is a Really Bad Idea," ACLU, May 11, 2023
https://www.aclu.org/podcast/banning-tiktok-is-a-really-bad-idea
- "Politicians Who Voted to Ban TikTok May Own as Much as $126 Million in Tech Stocks," Gizmodo, March 22, 2024
https://gizmodo.com/politicians-who-voted-to-ban-tiktok-may-own-as-much-as-1851356203
- "Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach," The Guardian, March 17, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election
- "Opinion: Banning TikTok isn’t just a bad idea. It’s a dangerous one," CNN, April 16, 2023
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/16/opinions/tiktok-ban-congress-privacy-law-greer-ctpr/index.html
- "How A U.S. TikTok Ban Could Stomp Out 5 Million Small Businesses," Forbes, March 25, 2024
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shirajeczmien/2024/03/25/why-a-us-tiktok-ban-is-a-terrible-idea-for-small-brands-and-creators/
- "Debunking 4 myths about TikTok," ABC News, March 15, 2024
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/debunking-4-myths-tiktok/story?id=108111705
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