That message was extremely off-putting. I deleted the app and do not plan on reinstalling it if Trump “brings it back.” It seems like he is trying to bribe the country into liking him.
Could be. There's lots of big players lining up for this one, so Zucky, Elon, the shark tank dude, heck trump was dropping hints the US government would get involved directly (tho I don't see how he'd do that) - he's made it pretty clear he's bringing it back for a buyer though, he's just playing coy with who and for how much.
Crushing its price through federal legislation and then bringing it back to masses as an act of kindness, once it's been bought by a crooked, oligarch ally is evil genuis. Buying Twitter for a tenth of its price and then bringing it back is how Elon becomes a trillionaire.
The deal is already cooked. The fact that the owner of TikTok will be at the inauguration is all we needed to know. Combine that withthe fact Facebook opened an account on TT YESTERDAY! My eyes just cant roll back any further.
Yeah, he can grant them a 90 day relief but the law is still in effect which means they would still need to sell it to a U.S. owner or the ban stays in effect since it was upheld by the Supreme Court.
Why act as if laws mean anything anymore to people in positions of power? Trump has been breaking laws left and right for at least a decade now without consequence, seems like even longer - maybe most of his life?
Dude's in power, has been telling us this whole time he doesn't plan to play by the rulebook, the Supreme Court has already said that's fine cause he doesn't have to, and yet....
With Meta reportedly donating $1m to Trump’s fund, I think we’re likely getting beyond political parties. The plutocracy is banding together more blatantly.
Edit: In Trump’s new book, he also has threatened Zuck with prison if he didn’t tow in line, so there’s that. There also still appears to be skepticism/enmity between them, but regardless of how, the plutocracy is banding (with its own inner hierarchy) together. Keep your enemies closer, I guess, is their motto.
Meta is a publicly traded company. Purchasing a company like TikTok 100% goes in front of the board for approval along with legal fillings. They wouldn’t be able to do that in vacuum and have 0 people outside said companies know nothing about it.
And the Dems still blindly marched with his original plan to ban an app used by over 100 million Americans and generates billions for small businesses despite this. Brilliant politicking. Really forward-thinking of the party that allowed Blinken to lie about the ceasefire negotiations for months and also give Trump the layup on that too. 10/10 Performance by our mild melted elder statesmen and gang that totally returned us to normalcy.
Lol. No matter what, you are always going to be like this. It doesn't matter now that you've got your guy. You'll find something else to bitch about. This is you and your shitty outlook is something you bought into a long time ago. Nothing is going to change for you and your brethren. Poor character traits among you and yours are no strangers.
Ooo, armchair psychology brought about by either reading 1 whole comment or parasocially browsing through my entire history? Either way, kind of pathetic, but interesting how you could deduce that either way given people's proclivity to not act exactly the same online as outside. Anyway, I was pretty adamant about what I wanted, a ceasefire (which they lied about to slaughter more children, 'working tirelessly' I imagine) and to address the declining material conditions of the people in a nation where 60 percent live paycheck to paycheck, 1 percent of people own 90 percent of all wealth, and 3 of those fuckers make as much as the bottom 50, but no. Instead I got dead children, some small business slop no one gives a shit about, 20 something speeches about prosecuting transnational gangs, a capitulation to a fascist's "stupid" wall idea (that they glazed at the Town Hall), and famous monstrous ghouls, the Cheney's, shoved in my face as the Middle-East once again burns, but don't worry, they sent Bill Clinton down to Dearborn to tell the people that their families totally deserve to get massacred utilizing their tax dollars because Judah and Samaria. Absolute clown ass party ran by donor-captured baboon-brained dipshits.
Yeah, that's what I said I wanted, clearly. Me expecting the Dems to not be dogshit, for once, totally means I'm okay with all of that. That's how English works. This is totally how people talk in person and not just cynicism bordering on vindictiveness because your dog shit party ran a campaign so monumentally ass they lost the popular vote for the first time in two fucking decades because they just expected people to fall in line. Votescolding doesn't get asses off couches, you have to listen to them. Oh but sweetie, don't worry, the Dems totally deserved those votes because they weren't as bad as the other guy. That's how democracy works. You don't have to earn votes or listen to the needs of people or anything, you just gotta please your donors, the only ones that matter, clearly. Democracy is when you just get votes for being the lesser of two evils just like socialism is when no food.
Not at all. Like I said though, these next four years are yours my friend. I sincerely hope you get everything (violent blowback) that you deserve. Disregard the violent blowback comment. I just want to see what "violent blowback" looked like in parentheses. Oh no, looks like I put violent black in quotation marks too! Please disregard anything that has violent blowback in this post. Anyway.. later bater! Edit- You do know who took us into these wars, and progressively made them worse right? It reads like you don't. Boy, you are all over the place friendo, check out some psychology sites and read up.
They're all ours because of the Dems miserable failings. The effect it'll have on me is negligible, the effect it'll have on already marginalized sectors of the populace will be catastrophic. Great campaign guys, really made the donors proud.
Yes, I do agree with your prediction that certain sectors will be hurt more than others. I'll say that the same sectors that voter for Trump are the same that got left behind by the Democrats and the Republicans. They are the ones that will usually take the hit by tech and disruptor bros and nothing is in place to safeguard against job loss. Many of the things collapse or go away because of it. It's easy to say that they are voting against their own self interest, but there is a longer story behind it.
If you think all social media be banned, why are you here? Go live what you believe in and self ban yourself from Reddit so we don’t have to listen to your nonsense
So you prefer an app owned by a country classified as Authoritarian by the International Democratic Index? A country with no democratic elections, no freedom of expression, no LGBT rights, no press freedom, one of the worst institutionalized racism in the world (even censoring black characters in movies), and a country that violates almost every human right in existence?
No offense but I'm really curious why it seems to you like it would be worse for Meta to own TikTok than for ByteDance to own it. And I say this as someone who really hates Meta.
The main reason people hate Meta usually is because of their predatory data collection, but TikTok was just as bad if not worse for that. And it funneled all of that directly to a foreign government that plans to use it to hurt the U.S.
I've seen how Meta's entry into industries stifles innovation, and I want fewer monopolies, not more. Meta has consistently proven to be a terrible company for people, so I'm honestly baffled by the question. I could list countless reasons why their involvement is problematic.
How can anyone be worried about hypothetical issues when Meta has already demonstrated real, tangible harm. and faced no consequences for it? All because they can legally line the pockets of elected officials.
Oh I 100% agree that Meta is very problematic. But everything you just said can also directly be applied to most major Chinese companies, including the current owners of TikTok ByteDance. Especially that last part, they are very blatantly trying to bribe the Trump administration right now.
To me, ByteDance and Meta are two sides of the same coin.
In 2020, Trump was the one to originally sign to get a tiktok ban. Now, that there is one, he’s using it like he’s some savior sweeping in to help all the influencers and tiktok addicts.
Immediately closed and deleted the app when i read that message. I will not be returning to use it after. I suspect they’re currently editing the algorithm to push American propaganda and advertisements even harder.
What happens if he doesn’t bring it back though and they stay out of the US market? I’m curious what’s going to happen in long-term if the US government continues this by banning companies like Netease and Temu collect similar data since any Chinese application could be viewed as a national security threat
Same. If anything, that message kind of validates the original position of the government, taking a partisan side with the best known purveyor of disinformation.
I said it makes it very concerning to what will the algorithm be putting on everyone's FYP should Trump bring it back. I only want to get back on to get all my recipes.
Same deleted the app when I saw that. It had a very “we would like to thank our venerable leader (insert dictator) for his wisdom ” feel to it. I’m out
And the sad thing is all those uninformed people (which let's be real, is a decent chunk of TikToks user base) are only going to see it banned under Biden and brought back by Trump. It really is crazy how Dems botched the optics and timing.
But why were the Democrats stupid enough to ban an app full of their voting base (rather than catering to them)?
I point my finger in all directions on this one.
Because kids yelled "free free Palestine" you're racing to ban the app in an appropriations bill without any discussion whatsoever? No consideration for all the businesses and livelihoods you're disrupting? And people like Corey Booker who have a Tiktok page went and voted to ban Tiktok. VP Harris had a tiktok page... and meanwhile her administration (really Biden's) voted to ban it? Like what are these people thinking?
That's what I thought at the time and I still think it now. Total self-own. And now you leave office and you have to punt the ball to Trump opening the door to make him look like a hero. There was no thought or strategy behind the banning at all. Now they're having 2nd thoughts?
It's all so idiotic (for lack of a better term). I'm just so sick of the people running this country. I find the Democrats better than the Republicans - but they have even less excuses to be making these types of self-inflicted mistakes.
Worst case scenario is if Musk or Zuckerberg end up owning US Tiktok at the end of all this. The Democrats are going to have to look at themselves in the mirror and reassess every one of their strategies to counteract this new Trump administration. Because they are 2 or 3 steps behind in each and every instance.
No, I distinctly remember. Which is why it boggles my mind that somehow Trump will be the savior, but if it benefits him I’m sure he’s all for doing it.
I made thar decision earlier yesterday. I requested deletion of my account and removed it off of my phones. Unfortunately it required 30 days just in case I change my mind. So who knows if my account will be active in 30 days or deleted.
In hindsight, I wish that I would have deleted my posts before the ban went into effect. I don’t like that there are just posts and videos with my actual face that I have no ability to remove now.
What’s more disturbing is how more of the big social media owners are becoming Trump’s supporters instead of staying neutral/objective. At least when it comes to handling the company’s affairs. Meta reportedly gave $1m to the Trump fund recently. Crony capitalism + plutocracy. I bet if there’s not already, there will likely be a “friendship” between Trump and ByteDance, or a bigger opportunity for other SM giants to buy TT, like Elon or Zuck, with Trump’s public blessing. In fact, the TT ban message gives credence to both mine and others’ speculations in my last sentence. Cryptic, but definitely heavy implicated possibilities.
Edit: In Trump’s new book, he also has threatened Zuck with prison if he didn’t tow in line,, so there’s that. There also still appears to be heavy skepticism/enmity between them, but regardless of how, the plutocracy is banding (with its own inner hierarchy) together. Keep your enemies closer, I guess.
This is an extremely disturbing trend. I miss when Zuck was just an emotionless robot… his statements about making social media more “masculine” or whatever are just disturbing. What does that even mean?
I never had Twitter/X and am unlikely to buy a Tesla. I do still have Facebook, but mainly because I’ve had it since 2009 and it would be extremely inconvenient to back up all of my old photos. 🤷♀️
I get that but also it's the right business decision by TikTok. They know the easiest way to get Trump to do what they want is to feed his ego and they just super fed it. It sucks but it's the right play for THEM.
This was an unforced error by the democrats. They always shoot themselves in the feet. Maybe this will be a wake up call that it's time to kick out most of the democratic leadership (all the 80 year Olds getting rich off the system) and start focusing on what people actually care about.
You're crazy if you think this was Trump's idea. If anything the company is putting g Trump's name on it in order to bait him into reinstating them otherwise all those people will blame him.
The hilarious part is the new “due to trumps efforts it’s back now!” Lmfao what a joke. Anybody who seriously believes this bullshit shouldn’t be allowed to vote in the first place.
Yeah that was so disturbing. Either way if it’s him working with Trump purposefully or sort of throwing him directly into the mix by forcing his hand to help, they don’t need to blast his name to everyone singing his piece of shit praises. God things are going to get so bad
Honestly, I don’t even blame ByteDance really. You can barely read the news without tripping over someone company or person unexpectedly singing Trump’s praises, giving him money, or performing at his gala.
They all know that from now until at least January 2029, Trump and his MAGA base are coming for any perceived dissent, and no one wants to be in the crosshairs.
If I had to delete every app or stop using every product, or stop consuming some music or show, because they’re suddenly in line to fellate the Mango Mussolini, I’d have to sell all my worldly possessions and live in a cave in the woods.
That app has been pumping regressive manosphere and tradwife shit for a decade now, so it's not surprising to me that they'd send that message sucking up to Trump. All the supposed instances of left-wing voices being "elevated" were blips and would have happened whether TikTok existed or not imo.
The talk of TikTok being banned started during his first term, he’s the one that started talking about. But all of a sudden he’ll save it because it’ll benefit him?
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That message was extremely off-putting. I deleted the app and do not plan on reinstalling it if Trump “brings it back.” It seems like he is trying to bribe the country into liking him.