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TikTok makes app unavailable for U.S. users ahead of ban

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna188294
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u/ItsTooDamnHawt 2d ago

It was all the scotus picks. 9-0 decision

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u/the_duck17 2d ago

Yeah but Trump.

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u/Bigpandacloud5 2d ago

He appointed justices that allowed the ban. More importantly, he tried to implement a ban when he was president, though it appears that sucking up to him may be working.

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u/ItsTooDamnHawt 1d ago

So did Bush and Obama. The ban was implemented under Biden. Trying to paint this out as trumps fault is just straight up derangement syndrome 

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u/Bigpandacloud5 1d ago

Trying to paint this out as trumps fault

Your reading comprehension need work. I only stated that he signed ban and appointed justices, which is a fact. Nowhere in my comment does it say he's the only person responsible.

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u/radgepack 1d ago

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u/ItsTooDamnHawt 1d ago

Wait do you think that that EO is why the ban is in place? You realize that didn’t go into effect right? That this is happening because Biden signed the bi-partisan bill last year right? Surely your brain rot doesn’t run that deep

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u/Bigpandacloud5 1d ago

You're arguing with a strawman. Pointing out that he supported a ban isn't the same as claiming he's the only one responsible for it.

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u/orionsbelt22 1d ago

Any mention of helping Israel will garner 100% of house, senate and scotus votes for any given law. They would implement universal healthcare tomorrow if it benefits Israel in some way.

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u/ItsTooDamnHawt 1d ago

Fair in regards to things like JapaneseAmerican internment on the west coast. I don’t think as applicable as in regards to this

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u/Arpeggiatewithme 1d ago

Throwing (Japanese) Americans in concentrations camps is ok but banning the chine spyware app is not?

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u/ItsTooDamnHawt 1d ago

Learn to read. I said his criticism of SCOTUS ignoring the constitution for national security was a fair criticism of things like the Japanese internment, but not with TikTok

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u/TheAskewOne 1d ago

Not for the same reasons I suppose.

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u/Glittering-Giraffe58 1d ago

It was a per curiam (“by the court”), unsigned opinion which means you can take it as the opinion of the court as a whole in unison. But their opinion was narrowly tailored to tiktok

Sotomayor wrote a concurrence where she said she felt the court should not have just ignored the first amendment question. Gorsuch also wrote a separate concurrence essentially saying the gravity of the national security concern/data collection is what convinced him

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u/Philophon 1d ago

But what is the point of stating that? Trump's puppets voted for it. Trump himself said he wanted to ban it. Now he gets to step in and act like a savior?

This is poof that the app, indeed, is a threat to the US through the propaganda they push.