TikTok

[PF5]

Deserves it’s own thread…
Interesting/coincidence?! that TikTok shuts down hours before the deadline with this message:

Then restores service hours later with this message:

All while praising trump…r they just kissing @$$?!…is it to give credit to trump for saving TikTok in US?!…trump initially wanted it banned (2020), now wants it back…

 

[mugatu]

trump initially wanted it banned (2020), now wants it back…

... almost like maybe he never really cared and was just doing what the money asked.

 

[cowboyinexile]

... almost like maybe he never really cared and was just doing what the money asked.

He wasn’t a fan when people were using it to make fun of him. But he can be bought so that made his support easy.

 

[CowboyJD]

“TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected to attend Trump’s inauguration with a prime seating location.“

 

[cowboyinexile]

“TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected to attend Trump’s inauguration with a prime seating location.“

 

[Donnyboy]

This has all just been a lesson at how bad we are at governing. They want TikTok’s gone. Bi-partisan immediate passage of legislation introduced by a man that bought a million worth of meta at the same time. It’s a threat to national security!!!! Goes all the way to the Supreme Court…..9-0 ruling. Biden won’t enforce it…..Trump will squash it. Schumer and Paul both want it back……

Nothing is more secure. Nothing changed. The phone it’s used on is still made in China.

It was all a big bunch of nothing.

 

[mugatu]

So apparently TicTok has gone hard right on what is allowed since it came back. Guess that was part of the price for Trump's save.

 

[cowboyinexile]

So apparently TicTok has gone hard right on what is allowed since it came back. Guess that was part of the price for Trump's save.

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Who needs state sponsored media when you can have state sponsored social media?

 

[mugatu]

Who needs state sponsored media when you can have state sponsored social media?

Yep. Note who was closest to him during the inauguration. It wasn't his cabinet, it was tech billionaires - owners/CEOs of Meta, X, and TicTok and then Jeff Bezos. So he's got the big ones covered.

 

[GOGETUMPOKE]

Who needs state sponsored media when you can have state sponsored social media?

Yeah, I sure hope this administration doesn’t try to exert any undue influence over social media.

Zuckerberg says the White House pressured Facebook to 'censor' some COVID-19 content during the pandemic

Zuckerberg alleges that the officials, including those from the White House, "repeatedly pressured" Facebook for months to take down "certain COVID-19 content including humor and satire."

www.pbs.org

Mark Zuckerberg says Biden officials would 'scream' and 'curse' when seeking removal of Facebook content

The Meta CEO said on a podcast that administration officials had asked the company to remove certain posts, including "things that are true."

www.nbcnews.com

Facebook execs suppressed Hunter Biden laptop scandal to curry favor with Biden-Harris admin: bombshell report

WASHINGTON — The FBI warned major US tech companies ahead of The Post’s first reports on Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020 that Russian agents were preparing a strikingly similar document dump — and once the scoop materialized, Facebook executives discussed calibrating censorship

judiciary.house.gov