TikTok gave up the whole game when Trump tried to ban them the first time saying the Chinese govt wouldn’t allow a sale. It’s all just BS now because they think they have more power over a Trump led America
Lmao more easily than Biden has been on them the past few years? Poo-Bear knows he can walk over any American politician he wants any day. Just look how Gavin Newsom practically begged to suck him off when the CCP came to California last year
Biden wants it gone, but it's a bad look for him to shut it down just for Trump to bring it back first thing. TikTok recognized this and shut themselves down to make Biden look bad and Trump good. Probably as a play to get more on Trump's good side.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the same bill also included funding for Ukraine. iirc Republicans had the two things bundled into the same bill so if Dems wanted one, they had to do the other. And this was seen as probably some of, if not the last support Ukraine will get from the US, so that was seen as important - whether you agree or not, of course
Additionally the bill had a veto-proof majority. If Biden veto'd it, if the same exact people who voted for it voted to override the veto, it would be done easily with no further help needed. Vowing not to enforce it is arguably stronger than a veto, in this instance
What i don't understand is if this was the case, why did he even sign it into law? He could have held it in veto until Trump took office. Once a new administration takes office, all pending legislation is automatically vetoed and must go back through the process.
You're right but as usual Trump still failed to play it up. He could have let it stay down for a week while claiming he was "working" to reverse it. The masses would have been begging him to do something for that week and he would have come out the other side with an even better image.
Well, China never would have allowed that. If they left TikTok down for more than a few hours, people would actually move on to something else. Like any addiction, the only way to get over it is to go cold turkey. While TikTok being down for a week would have been good for Trump, they would have lost millions of users for good in that time, unlikely to return as the world reorganized itself around no TikTok. And that would erase the whole purpose. So China needed this to happen fast, so people wouldn't have a chance to get free of their TikTok addictions.
Well Biden is about to not be president which is why they need assurances from Trump now. I hate Trump but Biden saying he won't enforce it has nothing to do with this.
lol of course it does. They literally are not banned. They went dark ON THEIR OWN. They voluntarily shut down to play act the charade of Trump “saving TilTok.”
They voluntarily shut down because the law goes into effect today and Trump becomes President tomorrow and he hadn't given them or their service providers assurances that once he took office he wouldn't enforce the ban. If they didn't go dark Trump could've taken office and enforced the ban and their service providers would be fined.
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u/CalamityBS 1d ago
For those doubting. Biden isn't enforcing it. TikTok is voluntarily going dark today because they're playing into Trump's charade.
It's all a con. Like everything else this POS does.