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And they're already kissing Trump's ass

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Spreading for awareness, I've been posting this in relevant threads for a week - This is all theater.

trump is going to "save" tik tok after starting the initial push to ban it (for the wrong reasons) to pretend he did something for you. Worst part is that all of the no/low info voters and non voters will eat it up.

It's the equivalent of a person pushing you into the middle of the street and at the very last second, that same person tells the drivers to all stop. "Wow, I owe you my life!"

And now, this adds two layers:

  1. You think trump and the Supreme Court are colluding? now they get to say, nah uh!!!! Even though again, this is all convoluted.

  2. trump gets to look "stronger" than the "highest court in the land" to help delude the next generation of low info tiktok folks.

P.s. The Chinese "protest" apps are going to mine the FUCK out of these millions of phones in the brief window they have them. Also, when the kids inevitably move back to tiktok, majority of them will leave these other apps installed on their phones, dormant and collecting in the background.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

I think there's an even simpler explanation: political debt to Jeff Yass (15% tiktok owner) and his cash for the 2024 campaign.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-jeff-yass

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

im baffled by the blase response by lemmy users to government overreach

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Same! It is definitively unconstitutional and the us gov just pushed it through anyway (with even supreme court backing it up?!) Shit is crazy, and yet I see a lot of 'no big loss' type comments on it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

The SCOTUS decision was wild too, because it was a fucking 9-0 vote. The decision was unanimous. That’s a word that’s virtually never used to describe the SCOTUS or any kind of government vote. That unanimous decision made it perfectly clear that the government knows something we don’t, and that TikTok had them fucking terrified. My bet is on the genocide being much worse than even TikTok was showing, but TikTok was the only place you could see anything about it that didn’t have a massive “Israel is just helping them root out terrorists” spin.

[–] Zink 1 points 14 hours ago

I wonder how much of all this is just the government realizing that social media is the next world-changing weapon.

Why dig out your nukes or your fighter jets to destroy the enemy when you can instead make them like you?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Right? 170 million people just get censored by the government.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago (9 children)

TikTok was a Chinese intelligence operation in the end.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (8 children)

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (9 children)

TikTok turned the youth pro Palestine whereas Facebook and Xitter censored it.

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[–] [email protected] 228 points 1 day ago (27 children)

And now Trump gets to be the one who saved TikTok, despite starting the process.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I did some research and now I know why Trump wants to "save" TikTok.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-tiktok-courted-conservatives-before-trumps-win

https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/tiktok-and-white-supremacist-content/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/on-tiktok-misogyny-and-white-supremacy-slip-through-enforcement-gap

https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-tiktok-accounts-spreading-extreme-right-propaganda-and-glorifying

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/16/congress/tiktok-sponsor-trump-inauguration-party-00198825

This one is especially damning:

TikTok is spending $50,000 on an inauguration party honoring influencers who helped Donald Trump spread his campaign message, according to the party organizer — and it’s scheduled for Sunday, the deadline for the company to spin off from its China-based owner or be banned in the U.S.

CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to attend.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

$50,000

lol peanuts aren't that damning... Capital in USA is spending millions and millions on Trump's inauguration.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5227874/trump-bezos-zuckerberg-amazon-facebook-open-ai-meta-inauguration-fund

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

no it isn't

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That second paragraph is just vile. Donny brought this ban into motion and now they say he will save them?

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Surreal watching the rest of the internet freaking out. Meanwhile we are just sitting here on our own platforms doing our own things.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Personally, I never saw the appeal of TikTok anyway.

Then again I also was never interested in Twitter.

I guess my attention span isn't short enough for that type of sites.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (13 children)

I know bad for democracy and everything but

This app has done nothing positive for my life, arguably began my social media addiction, filled my brain with negative content at the height of COVID and severely impacted my mental health

I don't think governments should ban platforns. But do I think TikTok should have ever existed? No

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's likely just staged bullshit so he can be the savior.

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