The most absurd thing about this whole brouhaha is no one—not even Tik Tok—calls on Congress to amend or repeal the dumb law it made. It’s just the president or the courts who can act now, in literally every prominent voice’s conception.
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Brian Fung
Just in: TikTok says it plans to shut itself down Sunday unless Biden publicly pledges non-enforcement. TikTok wants everyone to be sure Biden is to blame, which conveniently also curries favor with Trump.
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Now the felon wants it back, but regressive congress critters aren't talking about repealing their law. I guess bytedance didn't pay them enough.
The GOP are only now stirring up 💩 about it, to discredit Joe; and to appease Melon (who wants to buy it cheap).
https://bsky.app/profile/leasd.bsky.social/post/3lfxishlgd22o
That says it all.
1) They’d have never voted for it in such numbers to start with.
2) They’d have given a way bigger deadline extension.
They’ve all been told to obey Melon; Don’s new handler & funder. 😒
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They should be done disintegrating the courts in about 6 months.
Trump: Saved TikTok, he's a hero
I think that's the narrative the poster above was suggesting. Hard to know there's a deliberate plot or if Trump is the luckiest mfer in the world.
TikTok will be a good investment too. The more propaganda, the better for him.
Cost of business. Lose 40 billion but gain 170? WORTH IIIIIIT! Plus all the handouts he’s about to get from T. Beyond fucking worth it. Twitter was probably his best investment ever.
The ban was started by the Republicans.
They only passed it by attaching it to Ukraine funding.
The blocked the bill earlier this week that would have extended the deadline.
But the blame, even from people who really do know better, goes to "Congress".
Why is that not even on the table?
That’s the issue.
They shouldn’t have used it to ban something they were so squeamish about that they backtracked immediately after passage of a law. Supposedly, “rule of law” matters. Supposedly, kingly favor can’t *poof* exceptions to laws into being.
I don’t care a whit about tik tok.
Everything that TikTok is accused of doing is done by Twitter/X, Google, Microsoft, Apple, YouTube, Meta etc.
If you go online in the USyou give up your rights to privacy because corporate knows everything about you. Your devices are infected with corporatespyware.
why aren't they telling people to get on congress's ass to repeal the ban?
Elon sht the Twitter bed and now he wants to control another platform.
So much for free speech, no one should own it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna148685
TikTok has a huge world presence completely without the U.S.. If it has to go dark... oh well, too bad, so sad.