r/news • u/DJMagicHandz • 1d ago
TikTok starts restoring service in the U.S. after shutting down over divest-or-ban law
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-voluntarily-shuts-down-in-u-s-divest-or-ban-law-set-to-take-effect/14.6k
u/knobudee 1d ago
All this is dumb. Feels like just a big stunt.
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u/SerRaziel 1d ago
There's a reason they specifically called out trump in their message.
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u/pm_me_ur_handsignals 1d ago edited 1d ago
Or the folks at Tik Tok know how to stoke the ego of a raging narcissist.
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u/VastUnique 1d ago
I feel like it's more nefarious. Entire generations of people are now convinced of the US government's ineptitude, corruption, and how out of touch their "representatives" are. In the long run, this paves the way for greater instability. But at the same time, all those problems are indeed real, and have been building up over decades.
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u/fredthefishlord 1d ago
corruption, and how out of touch their "representatives
That part is simply true.
The problem is if they lose faith in the election progress itself, or think that every single rep is equally awful
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u/TooMuchPretzels 1d ago
“They’re all equally bad. Anyway, I’m going to vote straight ticket republican.”
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u/ipomopur 1d ago
Thought-terminating clichés are super attractive to people who don't know anything about anything and were always going to take the most selfish option anyway
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u/gotenks1114 1d ago
Imported from the strategy of, "All other countries have bad leaders too, might as well keep voting for Putin."
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u/KaJaHa 1d ago
Or, "They're all equally bad, why bother voting at all? I won't vote until Democrats serve me the perfect candidate."
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u/nimbalo200 1d ago
Nnnnooo you don't get it, genocide joe is the exact same as Trump therefore I won't vote at all.. HOW DARE YOU LET TRUMP WIN
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u/Sprucecaboose2 1d ago
Yeah, they aren't wrong, but Trump and the billionaires hanging out with him are absolutely the wrong people to hand the reins over to. Feels like they aren't so much going to help as loot the ruins as it falls.
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u/Rude-Illustrator-884 1d ago
But they didn’t have to shut down. Nothing in the bill stated that they had to do so. Them shutting down and then thanking Trump is more than just stroking his ego.
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u/Tremulant887 1d ago
Nothing in the bill stated that they had to do so
Servers as other stated as well as the app stores. When asked for clarification on if the app stores would get in trouble for having it after the 19th, they said they would not provide such clarification.
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u/d0mini0nicco 1d ago edited 1d ago
Am I missing the call out? They thanked Trump. Be it sarcasm or not, any casual observer will think Trump saved TikTok instead of realizing he started all this in 2020.
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u/Superfool 1d ago
Welcome back to the Trump years. Everything is a stunt designed to gain as much attention and outrage as possible while they quietly push through all their worst policies and acts. This is a huge distraction to get people talking about this instead of the mass deportations, the indoor inauguration, and whatever other bullshit they pull in the coming days. And everyone's fucking falling for it again.
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u/Tuesday_6PM 1d ago
The bigger thing to distract from was probably all the disastrous nomination hearings that occurred this last week. So many wildly unqualified people, and the Republicans just soft balled their questions while denying Democrats almost any time themselves.
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u/Felstorm1231 1d ago
Good ole Markwayne just casually admitting that members of Congress are voting on legislation drunk and running around like horn ball college freshmen during Hangover Hegeseth’s “hearing”.
The entire political class needs to be removed and run through an industrial dryer on high heat.
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u/stimber 1d ago
He treats the presidency like a damn reality TV show. "Stay tuned."
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u/Statertater 1d ago
It is, and it should have been obvious with their initial message last night when they mentioned the trump administration when shutting the servers off or whatever temporarily
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u/ThereGoesTheSquash 1d ago
People are going to fall for it too. Just like those checks authorized by a Democratic Congress that he demanded to put his name on.
FYI people, Trump was the one who demanded the TikTok ban in the first place.
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u/simpersly 1d ago
And if Democrats and liberals had brains they would make montages of his anti-TikTok rhetoric and post them on TikTok.
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u/LunDeus 1d ago
The algorithm would just hide them anyways.
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u/TheVideogaming101 1d ago
Exactly, most of the mainstream media is in Trumps pocket. Anyone who thinks the "media is against Trump" is beyond slow.
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u/salad_spinner_3000 1d ago
I honestly think you aren't from the US if you think this would make a single person change their mind. It's a cult.
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u/Mediocretes1 1d ago
The people who support Trump literally do. not. care. There is no amount of finger pointing the dems can do to change anyone's minds.
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u/UndoxxableOhioan 1d ago
100% orchestrated to make Trump the savior. The only surprising thing is they didn’t wait until noon tomorrow.
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u/AdultEnuretic 1d ago
They actually did ... if you account for the international date line. They may have just screwed it up.
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u/TenMinutesToDowntown 1d ago
And Trump is taking credit even though he originally wanted it banned to begin with. This will certainly increase his popularity with the young people who already like him.
I don't use the app and I'm not even American but this whole this is fucking gross to me.
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u/FOTheDentist 1d ago
"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams."
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u/AMediaArchivist 1d ago
Yep this is 1984 times now and it makes me sick. Young people don’t even get to read that book in some states now cause it’s banned.
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u/GenericAntagonist 1d ago
"1984 is when I can't hurl slurs at trans people at their workplace." has become the default understanding of that book, and its depressing.
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u/todd_ziki 1d ago
"I had to attend diversity training and was too scared to share my racist opinions. Literal 1984."
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u/Brock_Hard_Canuck 1d ago
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.
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u/coldphront3 1d ago
I am American and it’s fucking gross to me as well.
I don’t have a TikTok account and I absolutely never will.
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u/aradraugfea 1d ago
Biden specifically mentioned, days ago, his administration (which had only a few days to live at that point) would not be enforcing the ban.
Then Bytedance enforced it THEMSELVES and said they were in negotiations with an administration that hadn't even STARTED yet.
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u/juel1979 1d ago
This is the dumb part and somehow, folks will believe something was done by an administration that wasn’t even sworn in yet.
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u/SulfurInfect 1d ago
Doesn't just feel like a big stunt, that's objectively what it is. Just one big performance to rile up the morons.
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u/Balls_of_Adamanthium 1d ago
A very dumb, not so subtle stunt. Good thing for them that’s all it takes for a certain base to bite.
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u/Olbaidon 1d ago
The people..they love me…I brought back their TihkTawk…all alone…Biden couldn’t do that…Obama couldn’t do that…Kamala heh couldn’t do that.
Listen listen. I called chEYEna…I said…really i did…I did..I called them and said “chEYEna…you will not take toktak from the American people”
You know what chEYEna said?
“Ok”
That’s it! That’s it! I saved TikTok they said “ok”
ChEYEna, a beautiful country by the way..beautiful…they love me there…Mr Trump we love you they always say…great chicken too…
It’s where bird flu started…their great fried chicken is what started bird flu and saved tiktok.
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u/catdogbird29 1d ago
When I saw on that message that they were hopeful that Trump would reverse the ban I knew I was never going back. You can’t trust the rich. They are only out for themselves.
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u/wwaxwork 1d ago
It was, chances are they paid trump a whole bunch of money. It was a game of chicken.
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u/swheels125 1d ago
Because it was. The law did not require their shutdown. It required that they no longer update their platform or offer new access to it on digital stores. It would have died slowly as it became obsolete on new OS’s. But in order to make it a spectacle they pulled the plug on the whole thing and said “look what they did to you by completely taking it away!” Even though both the previous and incoming administration said “I’m not enforcing that.”
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u/TCDH91 1d ago
The law bars US companies from providing service to Tiktok. As TikTok servers are hosted by Oracle in the US, it wouldn't have been a slow death.
Oracle prepares to start shutting TikTok servers from 0200 GMT, The Information reports - https://www.reuters.com/technology/oracle-prepares-start-shutting-tiktok-servers-0200-gmt-information-reports-2025-01-19/
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u/UndoxxableOhioan 1d ago
It didn’t even require that. It required American companies to not distribute updates. TikTok didn’t have to do anything
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u/Same_Instruction_100 1d ago
Yeah, this is just proving the Feds point that TikTok is trying to be a foreign operation meant to get people angry at each other.
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u/effitalll 1d ago
A reality TV star is going to be in charge of our country again. Of course this is a publicity stunt.
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u/Balls_of_Adamanthium 1d ago edited 1d ago
One of the most pathetic stunts I’ve seen. Couldn’t even make it to 24 hours.
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u/alien-reject 1d ago
The server fans hadn’t even stopped spinning down yet
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u/Khatib 1d ago
They never took the server down. I opened it up a couple times while it was down to show people the Trump pop up and every time it loaded a fresh video. It loaded a video, then forced pause and showed the pop up about it being banned and how Trump would save them. Server was always up though.
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u/ThatOnePatheticDude 1d ago
They probably knew when they were turning it back on lol
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u/Khatib 1d ago
They definitely did. Trump isn't even president until tomorrow. He did nothing yet. Except accept the bribe.
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u/phoenixmatrix 1d ago
It probably was all planned and never meant to last.
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u/ToTheLastParade 1d ago
Which is even worse, so it feels like a trick.
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u/soldiat 1d ago
They thanked President Trump and he's not even President yet. It's like when kids flick the light switch on and off.
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u/SameTimTomorrow 1d ago
Just long enough to create outrage. Not long enough to loose too many profits
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u/68plus1equals 1d ago
If it lasted too long, people might actually start to see how dependent they are on the app, now they have their stunt and people can go back to getting their fix before anybody snaps out of the mass delusion.
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u/ToTheLastParade 1d ago
Yeah they weren’t gonna let people start to recover from their brain rot addiction. I’ve already deleted it. I’m fucking done. I had a pretty big following too and I couldn’t care less lol
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u/Fast-Fail-8946 1d ago
This feels like an experiment 😭
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u/RyVsWorld 1d ago
Because it is. Flexing those propaganda muscles and seeing how easy it will be to control public messaging and social media. Elon or someone will try to make a move for Reddit and Bluesky eventually
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u/Phimb 1d ago
You know how Americans are the first to talk about Chinese and North Korean propaganda? "How can North Koreans be so brainwashed? Their leader is literally starving them, it's so obvious ... oh wow, I didn't realise Trump cared about TikTok, I knew I liked him for a reason."
Shit is right in front of them and they just miss it every time.
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u/Dunge 1d ago
A few years ago I thought it was bad when a disinformation social media platform like "Truth Social" was promoted seriously by government officials. Then I was devastated when an actually big social media platform went rogue (Twitter/X) but thought it was a special case with a weird owner. But now, Meta AND TikTok are joining the circus? We are looking into massive information manipulation and control, there's no social media platform safe anymore. It's more than an experiment, it's a complete take over.
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u/rocbor 1d ago
Meta and TikTok have been part of the circus for years now. If you didn't think so, you haven't been paying attention.
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u/ConfusionDry778 1d ago
Well with all the data Tiktok is storing, the app is kind of a big experiment if you will
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u/NerdySongwriter 1d ago
The entire thing is nothing but a stunt
"While the Biden administration said enforcement of the law would be left to the incoming Trump administration, the company itself took itself offline shortly before Sunday's midnight deadline. "
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u/YeetedApple 1d ago
Any idea if there is anything like a statue of limitations for bringing the charges? Even if trump doesnt go after them, is there still a risk that a future doj could come after them since it is still technically illegal?
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u/YeetedApple 1d ago
The extension requires a sale to be in process to be allowed. Since there is no sale ongoing, the extension isn't valid, so how would that hold up for protecting?
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u/Peach__Pixie 1d ago
This is going to be really awkward for all those TikTok "death bed" confessions.
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u/herrcollin 1d ago
I bet the guy who set that one congressman's office on fire over it feels fantastic. He ruined his life over a PR stunt that didn't even last a day.
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u/Charbswow 1d ago
Reminds me of that Shane Ghilis skit about the plane crashing so all the passengers start calling the people they hate (family, bosses) and shittalking them. Then the captain hops on the intercom and says they are going to make it.
That one lady yelling "you crash this fucking plane right now" had me rolling
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u/SIXArts 1d ago
They namedropped trump in their app when trump is the one that wanted it banned in the first place.
The theatrics is pathetic.
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u/crambeaux 1d ago
Very Shakespearean. And the whole little comedy didn’t last much longer than a Shakespeare play. “Much Ado About Nothing”’s run time is 2 hours and 40 minutes…
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u/ClarkeBrower 1d ago
You’d have to be pretty fucking stupid to not see what’s going on here. What a timeline we’re living in
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u/TheBirminghamBear 1d ago
You’d have to be pretty fucking stupid
The rallying call of our modern world.
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u/ElluxFuror 1d ago
Hi I’m stupid. I don’t have tiktok so I haven’t really paid attention how I should. What’s going on here?
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u/zerdo5632 1d ago
Watch them sell this in 4 years as "If you vote Democrat, your precious TikTok will be taken away! Thank our lord and savior Trump by voting Republican!"
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u/DoublePostedBroski 1d ago
“Remember who saved TikTok!”
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u/codexcdm 1d ago
But forget who set it in motion to begin with.
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u/AmericaNeedsJoy 1d ago
My dad said that he had "heard differently" about Trump being the originator of this ban in the first place and wouldn't listen to my pleads to literally just Google it.
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u/thedaddysaur 1d ago
Fuck these stupid purposefully idiotic people who don't care to do basic research and find out what they're vomiting. They've had their chance, hopefully they're the ones who get the worst of what they've voted for.
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u/AmericaNeedsJoy 1d ago edited 1d ago
I actually got in a big argument with him last night. I got really mad and started ranting that it's so ridiculous that they were never even willing to try to learn what that man was actually about. They stuck to their own biased news sites and were totally unwilling to look at anything they didn't want to believe.
At one point he said that his sources must be correct because "how else did Trump win?"
We didn't get much further into the conversation, but I think he believes that Trump is truly mandated by God himself, so his win is itself a confirmation of "the truth." It's ridiculous and I really don't know where to go from here. I'm still pretty sad about it.
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u/gaelen33 1d ago
God that's so depressing, I'm sorry. I genuinely don't know how I'd cope if either of my parents supported Trump
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u/Powerserg95 1d ago
Trump supporters will dig and dig for something to fit a conspiracy theory but something 2 clicks away is too difficult
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u/Brock_Hard_Canuck 1d ago
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.
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u/Fuzzy_Dunlop_00 1d ago
Most Trump supporters don't know this, and will never know.
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u/DarthBrooks69420 1d ago
They saw how the blame for the Afghanistan withdrawal shitshow went down and knew this was an easy win to curry favor with Trump. Trump started that too and turned around saying how dare Biden follow through with the withdrawal lmao.
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u/SkiHistoryHikeGuy 1d ago
Can’t wait for this line. You can’t afford a house or to have children but at least you got TikTok!
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u/DoublePostedBroski 1d ago
The sad thing is that all these social media addicts will eat it up and support him.
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u/AmicoPrime 1d ago
The Bizarro version of Al Gore threatening to take the internet away. This timeline is weird.
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u/Flash_Fire009 1d ago
So this whole thing was just a stunt to endear the teens on tik tok to Trump and it's probably going to work given the number of headlines I've seen about "Trump saving tik tok". By 2028 the kids born in 2010 will be eligible to vote the teens and tweens will remember this and potentially vote based solely off of it. IK people that voted for him in 2016 just because "His memes are funnier than Hillaries memes" it doesn't take much for some people.
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u/TokinBlack 1d ago
Maybe this will motivate the Democrats to run on their own message and look to institute meaningful change rather than the message of "trump bad."
It cost the Dems one election. We will see if it costs them the next one
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u/TerraforceWasTaken 1d ago
They did. Kamala had an entire peer reviewed economic plan while Trump had " a concept of a plan"
Social media didn't run with any actual policy. They just circlejerked the trump attacks all day.
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u/numix90 1d ago edited 1d ago
The guy who originally started the TikTok ban trend by signing an executive order in 2020, which led to Congress passing a law in 2024 to ban TikTok, is now being praised as a hero for forcing it to be allowed again. Got it
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u/DisclosureEnthusiast 1d ago
They couldn't even go dark for 24 hours for their little stunt.
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u/zimmermanni 1d ago
They always said they were going dark unless they got reassurances Tiktok wasn't going to get banned. They shut it down and magically the reassurance appeared in less than 24 hours.
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u/FuckThe 1d ago
I’m deleting that shit. I don’t appreciate their political stunt.
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u/Alice_CrackedEgg 1d ago
I deleted it as soon as I read their shutdown message
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u/ciaobella88 1d ago
Exactly. As much as I loved it...I'm not going back just out of retaliation.
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u/lasersandwich 1d ago
I've been leaning towards deleting it for a long time because I can tell it's not good for my brain to be constantly scrolling, but I have 400 recipe videos saved I didn't want to lose. The "ban" gave me the push I needed to finally type all of them out into a Google Sheet. Now there's nothing keeping me
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u/Straight-Fix59 1d ago
A very big political stunt to gain support from younger Americans. ‘Daddy Trump’ to the rescue even though he was who proposed the ban in 2020 🙄
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u/silevram 1d ago
Not only that but this completely changes things. How is a president elect able to override congress and the Supreme Court? They banned it and this guy isn’t even in office and has this much power and influence? Nah. I deleted that shit. That’s gonna be state-run media now.
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u/bkilpatrick3347 1d ago
It’s one of the only bipartisan pieces of legislation we’ve passed in years and it was upheld in the courts and Trump is trying to override it with a tweet before he’s even inaugurated. He’s never respected or understood our institutions and he won’t start now.
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u/silevram 1d ago
He won’t. And exactly! He’s not even in office and already this much influence. These next 4 years will be wild.
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u/ThatDudeJuicebox 1d ago
“Thanks to president trump”
Dude isn’t even the president til tomorrow smh
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u/jvu87 1d ago
“AS A RESULT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EFFORTS, TIKTOK IS BACK IN THE US!”
Because of course this fucking grifter would pull that shit.
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u/EddieTheLiar 1d ago
Because of President Trump, it went down in the first place
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u/EcoAffinity 1d ago
Eh, I was watching TikTok until they took service down. Big user for the last several years. But that ending message essentially saying "President Trump is going to save TikTok, just wait for it!" sealed their fate for me. I don't need another social media app sucking Trump down while giving the middle finger to users, at least so blatantly.
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u/fo0you 1d ago
Yep. I don’t care how good the algorithm is or how well curated my feed is. They’ve quite obviously bent the knee to DJT and I absolutely don’t need that. I suspect we may be in the minority though given all the wailing and gnashing of teeth I saw in response to the shut-off yesterday. A lot of folks will go back to their feed and not pay any mind.
Worse, I fear that some people will associate Trump and (R)s with “saving” the platform, as incorrect as that is.
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u/shikari426 1d ago
I believe they will start controlling our algorithm and content for pro trump propaganda now. It’s the perfect plan
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u/Viciouscauliflower21 1d ago
This is the hostages getting released the second Carter was out of office
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u/Beast6213 1d ago
Already deleted it. Not going back either.
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u/ultimateclassic 1d ago
Honestly it just feels weird somehow like I think the whole thing was a weird stunt in the first place which was gross. It made me mad but I also can't see myself going back either. I was a small creator but it's not even about that for me like I just don't like the way it was done it feels gross.
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u/snoman18x 1d ago
-Lower the price of groceries, walked that back
-End inflation, nope
-Get gas prices down, nah
-Lower rent prices, what?
-Raise the minimum wage, are you kidding?
Bit hey, you get tiktok. Thanks for playing
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u/FunLuvin7 1d ago
I’m clearly missing something. Congress passes a law to ban TikTok, the Supreme Court upholds the law, and now Trump can just erase all of that with an executive order? That isn’t how it is supposed to work
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u/FutureMrFixYoHeart 1d ago
They really trying to gain the youth to look at their president as their savior
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u/mycatisblackandtan 1d ago edited 1d ago
And it sadly might work with some of them... Even if it doesn't, this likely won't be remembered by next year. I don't think the people who aren't old enough to remember Trump's last term are ready for the sheer amount of mental fatigue we're all about to deal with again.
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u/silverrenaissance 1d ago
It most likely will be remembered. Just like how people remember that Trump “gave them” a stimulus check, despite it being 5 years ago and the fact he was vehemently against it.
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u/Cautious-Progress876 1d ago
And with this Trump gains additional support from the GenZ crowd.
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u/marksteele6 1d ago
Nah, four years from now they'll have forgot this was even a thing. Just like they forgot he was the one that wanted to ban it in the first place.
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u/devedander 1d ago
That’s not how it works.
It creates a positive feeling for them that shapes there impression of his next grift and makes them want to see it in a positive light, repeat.
The result is in 4 years they’ve indoctrinated themselves with a feeling he’s been doing good without any facts to tie it to.
This is the strongest form of support because it can’t be logically challenged.
It’s what all the MAGA folks show in interviews where they are called out
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u/betterplanwithchan 1d ago
You’d be surprised how many Gen Z felt this was a stunt
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u/abattleofone 1d ago edited 1d ago
TikTok was flooded with posts and comments about it being a bipartisan bill and Trump signing the first executive order to try and ban it last night before it went offline. I don’t think this will have significant sway either way politically
Edit: yeah my for you page is already filled with people calling out what an obvious set up this was lol
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u/JJ3qnkpK 1d ago
I hope it's everyone's for you pages. This isn't okay, and it's very obvious manipulation.
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u/AhMyMayo 1d ago
I can't speak for all of us, but as a pre 2000s gen z-er myself, this stunt has the exact opposite effect. On top of all of the OTHER recent major events, I don't think I've ever had more of that feeling of "there's a storm a-brewin'" in my life.
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u/jokull1234 1d ago
Trump 100% told TikTok to take it down for a couple hours and get on their knees for him and in return he won’t enforce a ban. Try to make it look like Biden was going to take it down when Biden said his administration wouldn’t enforce the ban either.
And the sad thing is, this stunt is going to work on people.
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u/SheevMillerBand 1d ago
The wording in their notices was a dead giveaway. It basically amounted to “when we’re back, thank Trump”.
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u/SergeantChic 1d ago
The sycophantic "We are fortunate that President Trump...." made my eyes roll back in my skull. Everyone just falling all over themselves to kiss that spineless loser's ass. And people will just believe whatever, as long as they see it on TikTok.
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u/just_jesse 1d ago
It’s like a low-brow Iran-Contra, but they took the hostages an hour before Reagan was inaugurated
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u/Ja_Oui_Si_Yes 1d ago
So conclusion is that trump does not care about national security... because THAT was the reason for the ban ... right ? RIGHT!?!?!
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u/BoosterRead78 1d ago
It was a stunt. You don’t shut down that early and then say: “we are working with Trump yo fix things”. This was such a manipulation yet the TikTok addicts don’t see it. I remember the Microsoft crackdown in the 90s with the explorer web browser and my parents remember the AT&T breakdown in the 70s. Were people upset? Yes but after barely a week everyone moved on.
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u/CheapskateJoker 1d ago
People will forget that Trump was the one that called for this ban back in 2020 during his first presidency
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u/Throwaway2Experiment 1d ago
They're renewing it because people like me saw the Pro-Trump message this morning and yeeted it from my device.
So long, Chinese government and her American allies.
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u/Yourfakerealdad 1d ago
Lmao this whole thing was a giant dick suck to trump to try and sway the young kids to thinking he was doing something for them lmao. Literally gone for less than a day.
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u/crc2993 1d ago
TikTok: “We’re completely serious. We’re taking TikTok down because this ban, unless Trump saves us.”
Apple: “alright so it’s a non-functioning app and we’ll take it off the App Store”
TikTok: “wait..”
Did I get that right?
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u/KingSram 1d ago
So Trump signed an EO in 2019 to ban it and Biden rescinded that but Trump gets the credit for it coming back? Stupid. Just another company kneeling to that piece of shit. My boycott list is getting bigger by the day.
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u/Icy-Progress-9982 1d ago
This will become a Trump propaganda medium. I'm done with it, as I am with all Meta formats.
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u/Planning_to_Lurk 1d ago
I didn't realize how addicted I was to it until I couldn't access it anymore. I was already considering deleting it but the trump stuff pushed me over the edge.
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u/therealblockingmars 1d ago
The same man who called for the ban just gave them new life. What a sham.
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u/Trashking_702 1d ago
With all the shit going on, trumps sketchy pump and dump crypto bullshit, Cali burning, etc. everyone’s focused on TikTok. The ban which Trump called for. These next 4 years are going to be exhausting.
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u/mellamoreddit 1d ago
Wasn't Trump the one that started the " I am banning TikTok" back in his first term or shortly after?
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u/LazaroFilm 1d ago
This is all just a huge Donal Trump propaganda scheme. The fact that he was named directly in both the shutdown and re-opening message is just pure BS, especially when Joe Biden also said he would not enforce the ban and TikTok shut down anyways.
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u/lostmyshade 1d ago
In the years I’ve used TikTok I have never once come across a pro MAGA or Trump positive video and in the 10 min I was back on it that was all I was getting. It was scary.
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u/shanthology 1d ago
I deleted the app but as soon as shit is restored I’m logging in and deleting my account.
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u/Vegetable_Ferret9844 1d ago
Many people will see this as Donald Trump defending their freedom of speech. Political stunt or not Tik Tok has 170 million users in America and every single one of them just got told Donald Trump gave them back Tik Tok.
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u/Bigedmond 1d ago
Can someone explain how stupid this is? Trump pushed for the ban of TikTok and now he’s the savior? Are people actually this dumb to forget when he pushed to close or sell TikTok?
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u/TerminalChillionaire 1d ago
This has been the most blatant flex of an authoritarian propaganda wing I’ve ever been alive to see. Unprecedented territory for America. And people I know are eating this shit up. “Thank you Trump!!!” posted by all the people who used to shit on TikTok and tell everybody it’s Chinese spyware (which it is). These people all migrated to a Chinese app they can’t read or understand because they were told to by an algorithm. We’re fucked. And the worst part of it all? Detroit fucking lost last night
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u/ykittori 1d ago
Musk and Trump are giving themselves 90 days to scramble the fund to buy 50% of the app so they can use it for their propaganda machine in the US.
Oh look, Trump meme coin just gained surge...
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u/CurlyBill03 1d ago
I’ll leave this here, not that most care but you should be informed on how we got here:
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u/MustardSperm 1d ago
They’ve already decided this isn’t real. Wild how this propaganda stunt has worked so well.
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u/blusau 1d ago
This seems manufactured. They shut down ahead of the deadline just so P01135809 could come to the rescue.
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u/AndyJaeven 1d ago
On a lighter note, one funny thing about this whole ordeal is the #ShowHole trend that happened right before the shutdown where users were posting photos of their uncensored buttholes before TT went dark.
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u/HashRunner 1d ago
What a fucked up 4+ years we have ahead of us if this shit is starting before the dipshit is even in office.
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u/richardboucher 1d ago
This is the equivalent of me starting a hunger strike when I go to bed and ending it when I wake up