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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social • 35 days ago

All during the Biden administration

Reposted from Ben Goggin

BREAKING: TikTok restores service, thanking Trump
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

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riverside610.bsky.social•35 days ago

🤣🤣🤣 that’s why Zuckerberg financial is tanking. The greed

timcdermott.bsky.social•35 days ago

Classic Trump manipulation. 4 years of it to go.

s0m3f00l.bsky.social•35 days ago

like democrats could have easily taken this win but chose to be absolutely Politically clueless again... Biden could have done the same thing that Trump said he did. I don't understand what the thinking was.

ralphhhenson.bsky.social•35 days ago

So the Dems allow Trump to outsmart them.

Again.

foreverambre.bsky.social•35 days ago

How do you stick it to someone who’s political teflon?

pthoege.bsky.social•35 days ago

so...junta govts are associated with south american geopolitics and people tune out this idea...that's called stupidity. junta govts are made for situations just like ours. also, for the sake of Earth, we really need to jail Trump and impeach his whole cabinet and put Kamala in there. I would do it.

mamasun333.bsky.social•35 days ago

It was just a ploy all along so meta can merge with tiktok. 🙄 and dump can boost his ratings.

bizob.bsky.social•34 days ago

Not to mention that they pulled the stunt to make Trump look good.

surfprincessrachel.bsky.social•35 days ago

Thanks but no thanks

papalotl67.bsky.social•35 days ago

😔 Another sell out.

the-old-dog.bsky.social•35 days ago

Weird how the media never really figures this out

petegresser.bsky.social•35 days ago

At least ByteDance knows the play: no matter whether or not Trump lifted a finger/did a single thing; no matter whether was helpful or harmful or even present; even if he’s the one who started it, they have to thank Donald Trump & let him take a victory lap.

That’s the next 4 years in a nutshell.

abefroman41.bsky.social•35 days ago

Sneak preview Sunday

trevorgriffey.bsky.social•35 days ago

It's almost like Biden didn't shut down TikTok and this was just a stunt to lobby/ flatter Trump...

stlprogressive.bsky.social•35 days ago

How can an executive order overrule a SCOTUS decision? 🤔

soymusica.bsky.social•35 days ago

And how can someone who is not president sign an executive order?

reddirtwarrior.bsky.social•35 days ago

It can't. But, they promised to not let anyone say anything negative about the clown...so much for free speech.

jwolfiedog.bsky.social•35 days ago

First amendment my foot, it’s entertainment.

mombug.bsky.social•35 days ago

Trump no longer has need for female sex. He has the Republican Party.

sharib1.bsky.social•35 days ago

But you have a “bubble” over your profile like Meta apps. The server location is now in the same location as Meta and Trump came out saying he wants the US to own 50% of it (state media).

jamesderekdwyer.com•35 days ago

Clown world

wanderer3147.bsky.social•35 days ago

lpeds.com•35 days ago

Just a little amuse bouche before the entrees arrive.

waterloo45.bsky.social•35 days ago

Communist propaganda

cagrant.bsky.social•35 days ago

What a huge asskiss from TikTok! They weren’t even shutdown for 24 hours!

pceecoz.bsky.social•35 days ago

If I were on TicToc I would be running to close my account.

ozie24.bsky.social•35 days ago

I find this so frustrating, why give Tik Tok and Trump this free political opportunity?! Nobody cares about nuances, the take away here is Biden banned it and Trump saved the day. So badly played.

fyrestrm.bsky.social•35 days ago

Not sure how Tiktok can be restored when Congress passed a law banning it and then the Supreme Court upheld it.

To reinstate it would be in defiance of said law.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/18/nx-s1-5266146/tiktok-offline-supreme-court-ban#:~:text=The%20law%2C%20recently%20upheld%20by,into%20the%20billions%20of%20dollars.

via @npr.org

edwalker.bsky.social•35 days ago

Remember, SCOTUS says Trump can do whatever he wants to. Laws don't matter to him.

fyrestrm.bsky.social•34 days ago

It’s a test of Congress and the Supreme Court.

bonbonk5.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yep Trump never gets blamed.

michellemuto.bsky.social•35 days ago

I smell a Muskrat.

markshatraw.bsky.social•35 days ago

I have never seen a guy bend the laws of spacetime like Trump. President from 2017-2019, president from November 2024-?

ramrca.bsky.social•35 days ago

Deleted TikTok a long time ago.

bklynmichael42.bsky.social•35 days ago

Tik Tok:

hopesprings-24.bsky.social•35 days ago

China is playing us and it's only the beginning.

reddirtwarrior.bsky.social•35 days ago

The US has been farming our data to the highest corporate bidder for decades, an blaming China...an people need to wake up.

americaninlisbon.bsky.social•35 days ago

Honestly, at this point, Biden just reminds me of grampa Simpson. Oh, he'll talk, but no one really pays attention.

n0etic.bsky.social•35 days ago

If only Biden was not so old as to not be able to comprehend the internet.

itskrev.bsky.social•35 days ago

Lmao

myusernamewasatypo.bsky.social•35 days ago

Just about sums it up.

apewatcher.bsky.social•35 days ago

This is NOT a good thing. What we are seeing is the firm conviction that the incoming Cockwomble will be able to sidestep a duly passed and signed law and the rest of the country will go along with it. Fuck that. That is dangerous.

nitricacidbottle.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yeah, no shit. But in the plethora of horrible things to come this barely registers to me. Plus Biden could have vetoed this clearly bad legislation.

serienya.bsky.social•35 days ago

Didn’t it have other stuff that had to pass in it?

sjoneswastaken.bsky.social•35 days ago

The president has the power to refuse to sign a bill with a poison pill in it. And Biden fully supported the ban anyway. Any noise from Democrats saying his hand was forced because of "other stuff" in the bill is trying to revise history. Biden wanted this ban.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1236363592/biden-tiktok-ban

serienya.bsky.social•35 days ago

Biden also tended to err on the side of the intelligence agencies.

sjoneswastaken.bsky.social•35 days ago

Well he and the Democrats contributed their half of taking an app away from 1 in 3 US adults. There is no pretending this was all Trump's fault or a GOP solo action.

nitricacidbottle.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yeah, …I wouldn’t state that as a good thing.

apewatcher.bsky.social•35 days ago

It was a dumb bill. Look what happened, some people moved from Tik Tok to Red Note, which is OPENLY tied to the Chinese government. Rather than pass a bill with security rules for all social media apps, they targeted one app.

nitricacidbottle.bsky.social•35 days ago

It’s just further adds to likelihood that this was more about insuring the states power in pressuring SM platforms to censer it users then actual security.

chriswordnerd.bsky.social•35 days ago

I’m curious if anyone knows or could point me in the right direction, what are the practical effects of TT being back up but not on the app stores. If Google/Apple don’t bring them back, or if there’s a considerable delay in doing so, does it reach a point where the app becomes unusable?

rjc1084.bsky.social•35 days ago

It really doesn’t get any more comical than that!

crippleslap.gamer.blue•35 days ago

In all fairness, Biden did say he wouldn’t weigh in and let Trump manage this himself.

jummar.bsky.social•35 days ago

Well, TikTok can kiss my old wrinkled, white ass.

mikeintlh.bsky.social•35 days ago

So Tik Tok pretended they were banned and then pretended to be restored by Trump. Sounds like #ccp interference in our political process. Trump and Tik Tok should F off.

thatstoria.bsky.social•35 days ago

You still can't download it in the app store, though. Maybe after tomorrow. This is crazy as hell!

edwalker.bsky.social•35 days ago

If you are the lawyer for Apple or Google you probably have better sense than to rely of words spewed by the criminal.

marinabay.bsky.social•35 days ago

Four years ago, President Donald J. Trump denounced TikTok, the Chinese-owned video sharing app, as a threat to America’s national security. This week, as Mr. Trump prepares to retake the White House, he called it a “unique medium for freedom of expression.”

shutupinez.bsky.social•35 days ago

Fuck TikTok, I am not interested in companies that play games like this and not willing to participate. Bye babe.

mrs333.bsky.social•35 days ago

Trump was responsible for getting Tiktok banned in the first place all so he could look like the hero. It's so obvious, weak, and desperate.

sjoneswastaken.bsky.social•35 days ago

The bill passed Congress with bipartisan support, and Joe Biden signed it into law. So the Democrats are just as responsible for this ban as Trump & the GOP.

lgotts.bsky.social•35 days ago

So laws don’t matter? Congress now acknowledges that they provide meaningless benefits to the US?

lesliebetsy.bsky.social•35 days ago

I deleted my app today over this

stevezorowitz.bsky.social•35 days ago

Trump's taken credit for things he didn't do or things he opposed for the last 8 years if not his whole life and he'll do the same for the next 4.

sovrainmane.bsky.social•35 days ago

Umm tiktok stated it was Trump who got this done though. Does that count for anything?

johnmillerman.bsky.social•35 days ago

The law states clearly that unless a buyer is in the works the ban goes into effect jan 19. The president has no power to do anything, he has to enforces unless congress does anything

stevezorowitz.bsky.social•35 days ago

No.

1. They’re buttering him up
2. There’s nothing he can do *legally* anyway.

serienya.bsky.social•35 days ago

Esp as Biden didn’t enforce the ban when it hit. He left that for Trump.

reuxben.bsky.social•35 days ago

Welcome to Joe Biden’s America.

1dercat.bsky.social•35 days ago

Deleted TT yesterday, after reading their farewell message. It always leaned right, but it wasn’t the caustic bickering cesspool that Twitter became after it morphed into Twexxer.

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