> US citizens elected representatives to make laws for them. Even more so, this is a bipartisan law.
A majority of American citizens want affordable healthcare, housing, and education, net neutrality, an arms embargo vs Israel, an end to illegal forever wars, stronger environmental protections, cleaner water, less fossil fuel use and an end to fracking, etc - and there's still bipartisan resistance in our politics and media against all of those.
I don't understand this. In my view most people don't want this otherwise they would have implemented a government where the majority is heard, but they didn't. And don't even seem to try.
Either it's a dictatorship or it's listening to the majority. There is nothing democratic about acting against the majority. Never was
Nevertheless, the voters made their choice and actively voted for these representatives.
If everyone is so outraged and there's so many TikTok users, they can rally and vote out the people who voted for this.
I for one support this ban fwiw. You'll find out a lot of people do too. So in this instance and quite a few others, my representative has voted in my favor.
That’s not how voting works in practice. The people I vote for do not match my views on every single topic. Just enough (weighted) that they are the better choice.
It is possible that every single candidate on the ballot is in agreement on a topic that every single non-candidate voter has the opposite view on. That doesn’t mean nobody gets elected.
Of course the users don’t want it. Asking a fanbase if the thing they are a fan of should be banned and ignoring all other groups doesn’t make much sense. Nothing would be banned.
Many things aren't that democratic when you look at it like that!