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I don't see quite the level of inconsistency in the first item that you do. If you're a political/media entity operating in a market where you believe the biggest social platform has serious security issues, it makes sense you would continue to use it to promote content while it remains so, while at the same time removing it from corporate devices with sensitive data, and/or supporting legislation that would ban it. Until the latter is successful it doesn't achieve anything to stop using it for broadcast - could even weaken your efforts

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Yes. Both have their own logic. But i am not convinced that younger voters will embrace Pro-Biden influencers and/or attempts to make him look cool/relatable/tiktokable (see Daniel Mac video) while the White House backs a bill that could give it the power to ban TikTok nationwide. Not sure that you can have both.

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True enough, though I think the more rabid republicans seem pretty committed to taking the lead on the ban, and so will presumably take most of the heat. Unsurprisingly, I've seen a lot of anti-ban content on TikTok, and most of it is just generically anti-'mainstream', I guess in order to hoover up likes and views from all the different political perspectives that might be opposed. Pretty naive a lot of it though in my view, to think TikTok doesnt have its own biases, and not engaging at all with the more serious arguments in favour of a ban

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