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By Hannah Jackson
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Earlier today, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill that will force TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or face a ban in the United States. While critics of the ban denounce it as a violation of the First Amendment, its proponents say the app poses a threat to national security. Soon, the Senate will do so if they agree.
TikTok has faced several legal hurdles in recent years. Donald Trump fought to have the app banned during his presidency, and in 2022, President Biden banned the use of the app by federal workers on government-owned devices. Biden recently told reporters that if Congress passes the ban, he will point to the legislation.
TikTok has also faced other demanding situations this year: In February, Universal Music Group removed its artists’ music from the app, prompting considerations about artist compensation, the use of artificial intelligence, and users’ “online safety. “
But the risk of a big ban has far bigger implications than a limited music library. Before the vote, Vogue workers started thinking about what their lives would be like without TikTok. Here’s how they’d update all that commuting time.
If I were to use TikTok, I’d guess I’d spend my hours finding humor in the company of my friends. I suppose the opposite of catastrophic displacement is fostering relationships. Could you also start a course? I like to find new tactics to be unbearable, so. . . Maybe take action?—Maya Layne, Entertainment Associate
I’ll be making dinner instead of watching videos on how to cook #ASMR and organize the fridge with the sound turned up. —Taylor Antrim, Associate Editor
If TikTok were taken away from me, I’d spend even more time creating temperament forums for houses that don’t belong to me. Maybe with the extra time, I can dedicate myself to a lucrative activity and help make my country cottage dreams come true. Florence O’Conner, Associate Producer
If TikTok is banned, I’ll stop scrolling after all and sit down to write the next wonderful American novel. Plus, I’ll probably have to look for a new career, given that I spend much of my day managing Vogue’s TikTok. account. Come to think of it, this will simply waste more time for the novel. —Lucy Dolan-Zalaznick, Senior Associate, Creative, Social, and Visual Development
Without TikTok, I’m going to dedicate my social media efforts to a LinkedIn influencer. —Hannah Jackson, Fashion Writer
I love the web terrier, but, oddly enough, I’ve never been more passionate about TikTok. Although the one thing I invested a lot in TikTok’s nine-month cruise drama while on vacation. So maybe if they ban it, don’t do it. Do you know I’ll be booking a vacation electronically?—Liam Hess, Editor of Living
I don’t need to brag, however, I deleted TikTok from my phone over a year ago, hoping that my devastated attention span would eventually grow again. As much as I’d love to say that I used the free time to, say, write an e-book or something, I instead spent it listening to other people’s e-books: Late in the Day and After the Funeral via Tessa Hadley and Bad News, the second installment in Edward St. St. ‘s Patrick Melrose series. John. were among the recent favourites. And unfortunately. . . Do you watch Instagram Reels? They don’t have the gravitational pull of TikToks, so I’m fine after 3 or four, however, I recently came across one that stopped me in my tracks: a video that Joely Richardson had. Published by his mother, the redoubtable Vanessa Redgrave, reading a sonnet from the “poetic diary” he had received. So Congress can do what it needs to do. Marley Marius, Editor-in-Chief
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I have an incredibly terrible habit of scrolling through TikTok right before bed every night. My brain deficient, deficient. If the app is banned, I’m still going to grab the e-book that’s gathering dust on my nightstand: Braiding Sweetgrass via Robin Wall Kimmerer. Now, I’ll have no excuse: write prose about the Fashion & Style.
I’m going to see Living Single for the fifteenth time, I’ll be uploading pieces to my Net-A-Porter and FaceTiming wish list with my niece and nephew. Honestly, the best night. Leah Faye Cooper, Director of Digital Style
I hope to spend this time going through the pile of unread books on my nightstand, but also watching old episodes of The Amazing Race. —José Criales-Unzueta, Fashion News Editor
You know that? So, in spite of everything, I will free myself from those crazy tarot card readers who claim that I secretly have a friend who seeks to cast a spell on me, that my task is in jeopardy, and that despite everything, a big, mysterious guy from my afterlife is in my way. to confess their feelings. (Just kidding to them, all my exes are 5’7″ and the only thing they make me feel is dead inside. )It’s like the modern equivalent of someone sending you one of those deranged AOL chain letters you had. “Forward to 10 people. Friends if you don’t need to die, except you can’t just eliminate them!They keep popping up like a cybernetic Whac-A-Mole when you just need to watch a video of a dog!So yes, it would be great not to have to deal with that. —Elise Taylor, living writer
I probably wouldn’t have a job. —Taylor Anderson, associate manager of social media
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