So…
Members of the government are seizing private companies for themselves?
Isn’t that why we can’t have universal healthcare or free education?
Because the slippery slope would lead to the government seizing private property?
Why are we skipping the good parts?
Civil forfeiture has existed for decades. Taking property for themselves hasn’t been the problem.
Oh, but it’s fine when the government is made up of corporatists.
The media really moved swiftly back into “Stop the fucking presses, Donald Trump just sneezed twice in a row” status
“Tiktok is a tool for Chinese propaganda, but we’d prefer if it were a tool for American propaganda instead.”
The fact that they only targeted Tiktok already shows their motives. They claim that Tiktok is a powerful tool for data collection and propaganda. They claim that’s too dangerous to leave in the hands of China.
However, all the other social media companies (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc) are all equally as powerful. There’s only one difference between them: who controls the propaganda.
Remember, Zucc was a big sponsor of the TikTok ban!
I remember when President Obama suggested investing in Solyndra in order to save it and stop China from overtaking the energy market and Republican blew their lid but I guess they’ll be ok with wasting billions nationalizing a terrible social media app linked to multiple deaths of kids.
past political motives and descisions are dead, now is the Trump era.
China keeps taxes low by investing directly in businesses instead of shelling out grants and tax breaks. It’s been incredibly effective.
So if I’m following this correctly. The US government gave TikTok a year to sell their US operations, they did not and were blocked. Trump came in and gave them a 3 month grace period, to allow them the opportunity to sell their US operations again…
Why does he expect this is going to go differently? TikTok already showed they would rather go dark than sell.
He’s an idiot.
We all saw this coming from a mile off.
Wow, this is unfolding WAY faster than I thought it would
https://lemmy.world/comment/14608226
Who could have ever seen this coming?
Yup you called it.
This may be going off on a tangent, but it seems appropriate here. I am sick and tired of hearing about every little minutia of clickbait bullshit related to Trump. If Musk wants to buy and tank TikTok, great. I don’t give a fuck one way or another. Trump isn’t buying TikTok, and I truly don’t give a shit what his opinion is on it.
I want to stay aware of current events in my country. If the president signs an executive order, I want to hear about it. I don’t want to hear about what his friends are doing. I couldn’t care less who made his wife’s hat. I’d rather watch paint dry than a video of him and his wife dancing. I hate that I know he consumes McDonald’s slop and Diet Coke in the oval office.
People argue about how news outlets are biased right or left. The real problem is that news outlets are just entertainment outlets, and not legitimate journalism. I don’t care if you’re reading Fox News or CNN; you’re still going to wade through a river of worthless celebrity worship before you actually find something of substance. Scroll down far enough, and you won’t be reading about Trump any more. Instead, you’ll be reading about which actors are fucking each other and the latest and “this year’s hottest budget-friendly Temu styles that are now made of only slightly toxic synthetic fibers.” If you’re lucky, you might find an article about how some random nobody met another random nobody on vacation and got married. Good for them. I’m glad they’re happy. I still don’t give a shit.
Great. Don’t engage then. But somewhere between 30 and 50 percent of Americans use the app. It’s fate is national news.
I mean, this was probably the point from the beginning. I’m sure this has been their plan since they saw that he could turn a place like Twitter into a propaganda machine in just under a year. I’m probably just grasping at straws here, but it seems pretty sus that the TikTok ban only started gaining traction around the time Elmo turned Twitter into a shit hole.
Why would China want to sell the lucrative secret TikTok algorithm to the US government?
Goverment stake, isn’t that communism?
No, but they always claimed it was.
It’s a Good Thing we don’t have People who can MASSIVELY PROFIT OFF THIS making Decisions in Government!
Don’t think he realizes how problematic it would be for the government to have a stake in any company that actively removes posts. Suddenly they’re forced to allow far more speech than they previously did.
Yeah, but who’s going to enforce that?
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Lol they already know tic tok would rather pull out of the market over giving it to America. But Ya now they’ll sale to Musk
