And they’re already kissing Trump’s ass

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    12 days ago

    I wish people knew that TikTok being banned was more about it not suppressing posts about Palestine than national security or whatever else they say. Antony Blinken and Mitt Romney outright said last year it was about stopping people from seeing the truth about Israel committing genocide. If the government actually cared about foreign influence operations they’d regulate data privacy and social media algorithms in some way (idk how, but I’m sure you could) but they obviously won’t because US companies manipulating people and stealing their data is totally fine.

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      12 days ago

      If that were true then they wouldn’t have given ByteDance the option to sell 80% to citizens and continue operating.

      The law also bans every company from doing the same thing, sending personal data to any of the listed adversarial nations or being more than 20% owned by them. Why ban every company if they only cared about the Palestine message?

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        11 days ago

        If that were true then they wouldn’t have given ByteDance the option to sell 80% to citizens and continue operating.

        Except the entire point of that is the U.S. ownership would succumb to that pressure.

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          11 days ago

          *U.S. Citizen Ownership

          Because yeah, Chinese Military ownership is problematic for an app used by US Citizens.

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            10 days ago

            Oh, now it’s owned by the Chinese military?

            Which part of “freedom of speech” involves precluding us from ingesting content from a country our government decided it doesn’t like? Or electing to send our own device data or interactions to that country?

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        12 days ago

        So how are a ton of people going to red note? Shouldn’t that have been banned a long time ago if they ban every company?

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    13 days ago

    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.

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      12 days ago

      Why does Trump need to pretend to do something for you?

      Trump has your support no matter what. He will rape children but you’ll line up to vote for him.

      With that said he’s already in office. Your opinion is meaningless to him. He already got what he needed from you.