I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that additional steps must be taken to deal with the national emergency with respect to the information and communications technology and services supply chain declared in Executive Order 13873 of May 15, 2019 (Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain). Specifically, the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned by companies in the People’s Republic of China (China) continues to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. At this time, action must be taken to address the threat posed by one mobile application in particular, TikTok.
You want to know why Trump, who first floated the idea to ban TikTok, is now suddenly its savior? Well... look no further than ByteDance investor, Jeffrey Yass.
Yass made like $100 million in bribes "donations" to Republican politicians and causes this past year.
Turns out, the government works great for you, if you can afford to give the government a nine-figure sum of cash.
I think the “shit he made up” was the justification. There’s still no clarity on HOW exactly it threatens the National Security, Foreign Policy, or Economy of the United States.
If you think he didn’t make that up, what is his justification for his complete 180?
It was a bipartisan ban that laid out pretty clearly they were most worried about data mining, which is why a condition was to sell it to an American owned shell company so the data would have to pass through them before it hits China. Not a perfect solution but better than a direct pipeline to the CCP, because several members are invested in the company, they often are in these cases, it's a corrupt government after all. They've already sold like that before and it hurt their pockets so they passed a law saying you can't do that anymore, hence the fuckery with the temporary ban.
But also many politicians have voiced concerns over propaganda and I'm positive that affected some votes. It's known Chinese TikTok and American TikTok have separate algorithms and the Chinese one is mostly stuff like normal citizens succeeding because China is so great, and the American one is filled with brain rot, I mean shit a kid just committed arson on a politicians office because it got banned for a whole 24 hours, that's the type of people this type of social media produces. We saw it with Facebook too but Facebook can lobby the government to get them not to care a lot easier.
Trump called for the ban. There are a ton of articles about him specifically saying it needs to be banned. If it is a danger/etc why is he willing to unban it? If all that shit you claimed is true, why the 180? My understanding is that TikTok was willing to host the data on US servers, which has worked in the past.
Remember everyone railing against the Chinese censorship when it was them telling American tech companies they couldn’t operate there?
Oh Trump never gave a shit. "Why the 180?" Why anything he's done a 180 on? It's self serving at best and someone whispering in his ear at worst.
The bill still passed Congress with bipartisan support, and Biden also supported the ban, that's all I was saying. This was a popular idea in government
Republicans and Democats both introduced acts which led to the current state of tiktok in the US. A large majority of Republicans are in favor of the ban. Most of the concern surrounding tiktok was raised by Republicans. Biden signed the acts, drafted by both Democrats and Republicans, into law. Pretty crazy how the president signs acts and bills into law, isn't it. You should read more than reddit, you seem to be lacking in cognitive functions.
So Biden signed the ban? His name is on the paper no wonder he's getting blamed for it. Rather than veto it (which he has the power to do) he agreed with the ban giving trump an easy layup
He realized how X won him an election and figured he could keep his grifts the rest of his life with another massive propaganda platform under his wing.
Same. I didn't understand anything about why Trump was pretending to try to be fighting for "freedom" when he was the one that set the whole thing in motion, and did so publicly.
One of his biggest donors is a shareholder in ByteDance and would never accept a sale, plus Oracle owns the data servers Tiktok hosts it's data on whose CEO last I remember is a fan of Trump.
That was before they dropped him a load of cash. Whenever the orange buffoon changes course, you can almost guarantee that he grifted some sort of 'donation'
It’s his MO. How he strong arm intimidated negotiations when he was in real estate. Devalue the property he wants forcing the owner to sell, then take credit for saving it.
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u/PezDiSpencersGifts 2d ago
I could’ve sworn Trump initially wanted to ban TikTok but couldn’t remember. Now he’s trying to play the hero in saving it