It lets us know our personal information which is mined and sold to the highest bidder each time we use an App or the Internet is a goldmine for the Plutocracy. Imagine if we could sell our data and profit from it.
Except that the communication channels between us are being disrupted, stolen by oligarchs or shut down. It’s another (not insignificant) way they control the narrative and they control ‘we the people’.
They know everything about us, nay possibly enough to unravel our lives if they wanted to. We gotta give up their products en masse. Hung onto FB for family but fuck they have my number and know where I live.
The reason that /I/ care is because we've handed Trump a gift that's increasing his popularity with young people and those they may vote for someone similar in 2028. We can't prevent any of today's executive orders, but we /can/ prevent being played in the future like we were on the TikTok issue.
I'm worried for slightly different reasons. Trump started the 90 day clock. The requirements that ByteDance needs to be close to a deal haven't been met to trigger the 90 day reprieve haven't been met, but it doesn't look like anyone is going to seriously object on those grounds...
Bytedance would obviously prefer to repeal the law and keep on with the status quo. The first danger here is that Bytedance knows they can get that outcome by kissing Trump's ass and they know if they continue to praise him and make the algorithm more Trump-friendly, they can make that happen...
And it'll suck if it does because they'll be promoting pro-Trump views among younger people.
The second possibility is that they make him accept some portion of US ownership that winds up being the tech douchenozzles sitting behind him at the inauguration who will effectively do the same thing.
Its always been a harbor for the most disgusting behavior that can be expected from a social media platform, people have been lucky to have the algorythm shield the from the worst of it.
No kidding….i mean i love cat videos but there are options. Especially when the king is claiming he saved it….as usual. That people buy his bullshit just blow this boomers mind 🙄
Selling your soul for a fn app, nice. If a massive CME destroys the grid there are going to be tens of millions of completely lost & helpless people with no real life skills, staring at their blank screens.
Doesn't bode well for social media outlets, in general. Certainly sets a really nasty precedent should #Felon47 follow through with a government take over of the outlet. Next thing you know it comes preloaded on devices (like certain browsers) with no way to delete & automated accounts.
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I’m sure TRT brain and newly made right winger Zuckerberg isn’t gonna be modifying the algorithm to hide things.
1) Bytedance can find a US buyer.
2) Trump can pressure Congress to repeal or amend the law
3) Trump can let the 90 days expire and shut it down...
The second possibility is that they make him accept some portion of US ownership that winds up being the tech douchenozzles sitting behind him at the inauguration who will effectively do the same thing.
The mass deportations are crimes against humanity. Where does he think these people will go? Canada and Mexico? Not happening.
Authoritarianism is what these fools voted for. What a sad day for democracy and the USA.
They own most of it. TikTok was causing them particular pain, because too much truth about Zionism was slipping by uncensored.
https://youtu.be/L223X2tsDY0
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