The young voices in the messages left for North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis were laughing, but the words were ominous.
“OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you,” one said, giggling and talking over other young voices in the background. “I’ll shoot you and find you and cut you into pieces.” Another threatened to kill Tillis, and then take their own life.
Tillis’s office says it has received around 1,000 calls about TikTok since the House passed legislation this month that would ban the popular app if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake. TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers. “The government will take away the community that you and millions of other Americans love,” read one pop-up message from the company when users opened the app.
Cool zoomers to US congress and senate members :
TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers.
Lol the first time I contacted my representatives was because Failblog told me to in order to kill the Stop Online Piracy Act around 2009. Glad the tradition’s being kept alive.
TikTok has been urging its users — many of whom are young — to call their representatives, even providing an easy link to the phone numbers.
Isn’t this exactly what brunch liberals want us to do? Contact our elected representatives and voice our opinions?
Well contacting elected people isn’t necessarily Lib, especially if the contact comes along with a threat. I suppose the main issue is that communist orgs have no ability to grow a mass movement from any sort of extreme hatred towards our rulers.
also, even the non-threatening calls freak politicians out. They are used to 1 of every 10 pissed off people sending an email, and 1 of every 100 pissed off people sending a letter or calling. Something like that. So if you blow up one of their intern’s phones for a few days and they are at all threatened in the primary or the general, they are gonna get alarmed.
The kids are alright
that’s amazing, senators are getting death threats over banning tiktok, i love it, dumbest future
edit: commas for fediverse
Honestly I’m just very happy they’re getting thousands of death threats in close succession and I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth
I mean it’s absurd how stupid and shortsighted it is as a political move. Democrats could not pick things to piss off more of their base if they tried.
How does that matter literally at all? It’s still something that pisses off their base. The whole point is democrats don’t give a fuck about their base and just expect us to vote for them.
Why do you all always say that like it’s a good thing?
You all call conservatives ‘Nazis’ (deservedly so), but then talk about things being ‘bipartisan’ as though it’s suddenly a good thing to be in agreement with Nazis.
The only true bipartisan things I recall are things like the Iraq/Afghanistan war, the Patriot act, and so many other horrid things.
If you’ve spent your entire life practicing hiding under desks for when some incel tries to murder you and all your friends while the government refuses to do anything and then that same government takes away something you and all your friends like and tells you it’s to protect your safety, when it’s really obvious it’s just so American companies can ruin it and fuck you over, jihad seems like a pretty modest proposal.
