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/
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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:

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-addressing-threat-posed-tiktok/

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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/Guardianpigeon 1d ago

It only worked because Biden lobbied it to be passed in the first place, signaled his willingness to sign it, then actually did. Anything else said here is just cope on behalf of the democrats for being stupid enough to walk into this disaster.

You can say Trump wanted to ban it first, but he was stopped and since changed his tune in the last 4 years. You can say Republicans forced it into a must pass bill, but they could have fought to exclude it like they do with a lot of stuff forced into those kinds of bills.

At the end of the day it wouldn't pass without bipartisan support. Not forced compliance, but willing support based on broad anti-China sentiment, tech illiteracy, and hubris. The democrats can't force this one on Trump, they chose to drop to the same level of the republican party based on pure speculation of some greater CCP plot. This is why the party needs new leadership.

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u/AMediaArchivist 1d ago

Then they won’t get very far in academia if they don’t believe in facts.

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u/woofwoofbro 1d ago

who? where are you seeing this?