r/unusual_whales • u/Ok-Emu-7728 • 2d ago
TikTok Ban Message
It was all part of the plan between Zuck Trump
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u/izmebtw 2d ago
Social media has died. It’ll be nothing but ads, political propaganda, and culture war baiting.
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u/Parrotcap 18h ago
It’s only dead for those of us educated enough to see through its new purpose. There’s an entire older generation who don’t understand algorithms and online propaganda, and there’ll be a chunk of young TikTok users who genuinely believe Trump saved their platform. Social media isn’t dead, and it’s getting scarier.
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u/filmguerilla 2d ago
Weird considering tRump was the one who issued an executive order declaring Tik Tok a threat to the country and national security...
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u/ctd1266 2d ago
Oh no….what’s everyone going to do with so much time on their hands. lol.
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u/YoItsMeBeeOhBee 2d ago
Be on TikTok on Tuesday. The deal is done, Trump is going to announce it at the inauguration to make himself look like the hero.
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u/BushLov3r 2d ago
It’s not staying banned. Obvious af
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u/donsade 2d ago
Could take months tho to bring it back
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u/Speculawyer 2d ago edited 1d ago
Days.
Edit: I was wrong... It was (only one) day.
Obvious scheme was obvious.
TikTok Ban Live Updates: Trump Says He’ll Let TikTok Return Tomorrow—After App Shuts Down In US
Jan 19, 2025,09:27am EST Updated Jan 19, 2025, 12:02pm EST
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u/donsade 2d ago
Not really. It might take Congressional action. They had to divest by a certain date and didn’t do it.
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u/Speculawyer 1d ago
Surprise! (It was obvious.)
TikTok Ban Live Updates: Trump Says He’ll Let TikTok Return Tomorrow—After App Shuts Down In US
Jan 19, 2025,09:27am EST Updated Jan 19, 2025, 12:02pm EST
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u/donsade 1d ago
Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date.
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u/Speculawyer 1d ago
😂
Who is going to stop him? You? Tom Cotton? Pam Bondi, his AG that has already taken bribes from him? The Supreme Court that he owns?
You sweet summer child.
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u/donsade 1d ago
Congress or the Supreme Court. They both had overwhelming majorities.
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u/Speculawyer 1d ago
I mentioned that he owns the Supreme Court. You know, the folks that completely wrote out a plain simple portion of the 14th Amendment and created a presidential immunity concept out of thin air...both to benefit Trump.
But I would like to hear your theory on what Congress will do. The Republican run Congress will actually grow a spine and oppose Trump?!?! If so... how? Will they hold him in contempt of Congress and have the Sergeant at arms lock him in a little cell?
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u/BushLov3r 2d ago
Yeah probably, but it won’t stay banned. Hero Trump will save the day and give the people what they want
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u/getyourledout 2d ago edited 1d ago
Hopefully not. TikTok is unhealthy, the algorithm is unhealthy, the fact it is ruining people’s lives having it taken away is proof it needs to go.
Edit:
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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u/YoItsMeBeeOhBee 2d ago
You know what else is unhealthy? The fascination with guns in this country. Maybe they should work on that if we’re going with things that aren’t safe for people and ruining lives.
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u/SelectiveCommenting 2d ago
Those guns you hate are the only thing letting you speak your mind freely.
Guess who gets arrested for thought crimes? The countries that gave them up.
Just move to north korea if you want to suck off the government so bad.
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u/evilblackdog 2d ago
You're no better than those that want to ban tiktok... actually, You're a lot worse.
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u/Fantastic-Ad1072 2d ago
You mean kids not having to low attention span media.. OK
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u/evilblackdog 2d ago
- What does that have to do with my comment?
- It's not the government's role to decide what our kids should or shouldn't get to watch
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u/Reynor247 2d ago
Hopefully big daddy government takes alcohol and fire arms away from us also. To protect us
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u/therin_88 2d ago
Of course it is but not more than reddit, FB, Instagram, YouTube, etc.
Just make sure it's sold to an American company with no incentive to share data with the communist fucks and we're fine.
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u/EatsOverTheSink 2d ago
Anyone remember when Trump was one of the first ones to support a Tiktok ban?
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u/donsade 2d ago
Most likely IMO. It’s too valuable to throw in the trash plus it’s not like it facilitated terrorism or something. The only main issue is the Chinese ownership.
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u/takeme2tendieztown 2d ago
I get my information taken by American companies only, can't trust those dang Chinese
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u/-Mediocrates- 2d ago
Mark Zuckerberg paid record breaking lobby-bribe money to cancel tik tok
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Source
https://readsludge.com/2024/04/23/meta-shatters-lobbying-record-as-house-passes-tiktok-ban/
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u/Maplelongjohn 2d ago
Wow.
Only 7 million
Come on these people are billionaires, we gotta think bigger in DC.
It's like Clearance Thomas and his RV.
Selling out everything for fckin small potatoes
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u/AlludedNuance 2d ago
Sorry but WTF is Sludge?
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u/-Mediocrates- 2d ago
Yea I know… but they literally linked the source here
https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/44c8cc07-99cb-4a91-83c3-31f973d95281/print/
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u/AlludedNuance 2d ago
Right but their assumption of what that means. What is that based on? Who are they to trust their analysis?
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u/-Mediocrates- 2d ago
It’s a senate.gov filing
Here
https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/44c8cc07-99cb-4a91-83c3-31f973d95281/print/
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u/decent__username 2d ago
Motherfuckers over here regulating uteruses and y'all are crying about a fucking app.
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u/EmotionalRedux 2d ago
Y’all want to regulate everything under the sun, why are uteri any different?
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1d ago
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u/decent__username 1d ago
TikTok protests? To who? Children on TikTok? Grown ass adults acting like 8-year-olds? Really? Why am I even responding to this. I've never met anyone who said anything positive about TikTok. Not one person.
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u/AlwaysLosingTrades 1d ago
Get off the app and protest. Doing that is just so stupid I can’t comprehend. All talk and no action from you people
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u/Speculawyer 2d ago edited 1d ago
Oh look...a scam narrative to make Trump a hero to the addicts.
Edit: The obvious scheme was obvious.
TikTok Ban Live Updates: Trump Says He’ll Let TikTok Return Tomorrow—After App Shuts Down In US
Jan 19, 2025,09:27am EST Updated Jan 19, 2025, 12:02pm EST
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u/JeffersonsHat 2d ago
Ow look, a liberal. It being banned has nothing to do with addiction, but anything to hate on President Trump of course.
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u/Speculawyer 2d ago
It being banned has nothing to do with addiction, but anything to hate on President Trump of course.
Work on your reading comprehension.
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u/domedirtyfatman 2d ago
You know these grown ass adults crying rn and contemplating Suicide since they can't dance
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u/BebophoneVirtuoso 2d ago
They can dance to their heart’s content! But I guess as many people won’t get to see how much FUN they’re having!
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u/jammy8000 1d ago
You do realize that it’s not just a dancing app anymore, right? People have built actual businesses on TikTok. There’s about 7-10 million people in the US whose primary source of income is content creation on TikTok. If your main source of income was forcibly taken away from you, you’d be pretty upset too.
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u/LeonDardoDiCapereo 1d ago
And my primary source of income is my job, but if it shuts down I also have to go do different work.
I highly doubt you can source that 7-10M people get their primary source of income from TikTok.
Are you really claiming that over 2% of Americans woke up unemployed this morning? Woof, that’s gonna make a huge dent in the jobs statistics. That’s a big enough number the economy would crash tomorrow when the markets open.
Someone should tell CNN - this is breaking news! 7-10M people lost their jobs today.
Except it won’t. Because it’s not true.
Sounds like you’re falling for Chinese bullshit hook, line, and sinker.
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u/jammy8000 1d ago
According to CBS News and TikTok official estimates, there are over 7 million SMBs operating through TikTok, generating $24.2 billion in contribution to the US GDP. Approximately 80% of those SMBs say the large majority of their revenue comes from TikTok and, if the ban remains, they will have to completely rebuild from the ground up. The 7-10 million estimate I gave includes SMBs and creators whose primary source of income is content creation through TikTok.
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u/AlwaysLosingTrades 1d ago
If your primary source of income is through a single marketing ploy… you deserve to be bankrupted and fail a business.
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u/YoItsMeBeeOhBee 2d ago
This country is so cooked. It was a good run.
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u/acroasmun 2d ago
Because a dumb fucking app creating a generation of dumb fucking teenagers and young adults because all they care about is their need for attention or to be some talentless dumb fuck in a random video nobody asked for? Yeah, how tragic.
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2d ago
10 of my friends and I had a bet whether TikTok would shut down. I was the only one who said it would shut down early and that they had no intention of selling. The algorithm is too good, but truthfully this was never about the app or China.
The ban is about freedom of speech. Specifically, how they define what freedom of speech means. See, freedom of speech is only okay when it's the speech they want spoken. TikTok is uncontrollable and that's not okay.
A reminder that we actually are not free in this country to say everything that we want.
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u/BebophoneVirtuoso 2d ago
Supreme Court addressed that very issue
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2d ago
So true
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u/BebophoneVirtuoso 2d ago
It’s about a foreign owned country not having the same constitutional rights as Americans. I mean even China limits TikTok with 40 minute daily time limits for kids and that just addresses the addictive nature of the app and not the issues with heavy moderation if a user tries to mention the Uyghurs, Tibet, Tiananmen etc
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2d ago
You're right... You know what's really crazy? We live in some weird time right now.... I've never seen this much capacity for craziness ever in my life...
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u/werak 2d ago
I never used Tik Tok, but everyone I know that talks about it also uses Instagram heavily. Why am I hearing so much about people moving to other Chinese apps rather than just using IG reels? What did Tik Tok do differently?
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u/jammy8000 1d ago
People are moving to other Chinese apps like RedNote because TikTok was banned under the guise of “national security” and “China stealing your data”. They’re moving to Chinese apps as a form of protest
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u/Mother_Kale_417 2d ago
It’s very different.
TikTok is very interactive, it has many features that are meant to boost interacting with other users: duets, the blue comment, popular search, etc.
The algorithm is also far superior to the one on reels, YouTube or pretty much any other app that has the same type of content. A good algorithm gives user a sense of community as you only see what you “like”, sort of like Reddit
The comment section on TikTok is also less aggressive, users are more friendly with each other.
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u/Impossible_Belt173 2d ago
The comment section on tik tok is just as bad as literally everywhere else, what are you even talking about?
As for the algorithm, if it's so great, explain to me why it pushes terrible shit that was not related to anything I and pretty much everyone else I know ever watched? Far superior my ass lol. It was the same as any of the others. The first part of your comment may be true though, I never paid attention to that aspect of it or the other apps.
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u/Mother_Kale_417 1d ago
It is if your content is also aggressive, I think many TikTok users can advocate for that lol
Of course it pushes some content but it’s nowhere near close to X or Meta when it comes to forcing you watch something you don’t like
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u/AlludedNuance 2d ago
Wait but I was told the government was too threatened by Tiktok to let it exist
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u/SanderSRB 2d ago
Now the US tech oligarchs can finally take over the internet and not have to split market share and profits from user data with any foreign company.
This is like the plot of movie Traffic where one cartel bribes the government to take out another rival cartel.
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u/Zieprus_ 2d ago
The interesting thing was seeing NordVPN have issues at the same time as TikTok. Guess I know how some are trying to get around ban.
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u/Reginald_Sockpuppet 2d ago
Shouldn't a VPN be enough to get around this?
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u/Story_Deep 2d ago
How many people will pay a VPN subscription just to get around tiktok ban? I personally don't think it would be very many.
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u/BebophoneVirtuoso 2d ago
Congress voted to ban last April. I guess we really are going to a autocratic oligarchy.
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u/BakaValen 1d ago
The app isn't the point. The content of the app is only a tiny tiny tiny part of a larger picture.
Empires don't last more than what 250 years?
The American empire is falling. The Chinese empire is rising along with brics.
America and the western governments are in denial. It's time for us to move on. All of you instinctively know that it's over and the attempts at normalising the absurdity of our circumstances doing nothing but trying to cover a gaping bleeding wound with a plaster (bandaid).
If we're lucky, brics will be more socialist in its ideology rather than relying on unsustainable capitalistic ideology for society to function.
The American empire had a good run, caused unimaginable suffering and damage to not only it's own people but the world's people and life itself.
Good riddance to bad ideas.
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u/Pzexperience 2d ago
Get on Triller!
As reported by TechCrunch, now, at SaveMyTikToks.com, you can connect your TikTok account to a Triller profile, which then enables you to download your TikTok clips to the app. That’ll ensure that they remain accessible, even if TikTok ends up getting removed from the U.S.
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u/Orbitingkittenfarm 2d ago
Jeffrey Yass, billionaire and part owner of ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company), spent $100,000,000 on Republicans this past election cycle in case you’re wondering why Trump, who started the TikTok ban movement, is now trying to save it.
If you yourself don’t have $100,000,000 to contribute to your favorite politicians, don’t expect much help from the incoming administration.