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LurkerJ said:

The November election is fast approaching, and Biden is hurting badly with young voters and voters of color over his lockstep support of what half of Biden voters view as genocide. Now, the administration believes, is the time to change people’s information—rather than change reality. This is consistent with a Biden reelection strategy, as I detailed last week, premised on manipulating public perception rather than substantively changing policy. Conservative Democrats and Republicans, for the most part, have always been pro-banning TikTok over their lizard brain anti-China posture (though Trump has recently switched positions, either because his inner circle is being bought off, or just because he wants to do the opposite of what Biden wants to do, it’s not clear). Overall, the missing element in getting a TikTok ban through Congress has been Liberal-Left squeamishness with such an overt act of censorship. Gaza has radically changed this dynamic, and now the vast majority of congressional Democrats support the move because, clearly, the President doesn’t plan on ending his support for Israel’s ethnic cleansing plan any time soon. 

So if President Biden is hurting with young voters, why will he sign the TikTok ban bill if/when it arrives on his desk? TikTok has ~170M US citizens on it "daily" (if not monthly) and if that social media become unavailable that would just piss off the young voters even more. I understand that they are mad with his Israel/Hamas/Palestinian situation but don't give them another reason to be pissed at you (banning one of the biggest social media in America, unless sold to an american company which is a huge ask given how much TikTok is worth).

This is my thought personally, with why Trump switched positions, I think that if this ban bill were to pass, what is to stop the government from shutting down Truth Social (his social media), and any other social media that does not agree with the government or follows their agenda?
I understand that we talked about it, and the reasoning was that the government wouldn't do that to an american company (I dont see that reason being enough), but what is stopping the government from shutting down social medias, websites, videos, etc when something is posted that doesn't fit the agenda?