UPDATE 1/20: TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER: SELL TIKTOK TO US OR WE'RE TARIFFING CHINA. You have 75 days!!!!

[horizon]

Tom Cotton is threatening

He's going to find himself primaried and kicked the fukk out if he doesn't fall in line that party and everyone in it are spineless against Trump

 

[Unbothered]

This whole thing has kinda also shed light on how Americans might not be able to mentally survive without social media being present.

In a hypothetical scenario, imagine if Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube were banned at the same time as TikTok; thousands, if not millions, of people across the country would probably be on suicide watch.

 

[Dad]

I have a friend who makes a living on tiktok. There are thousands of people doing the same.

Of course some ppl is going to be emotional when it affects them like that.

Ppl Saying "get a real job" is lame retort. They don't say the same thing to women on OF or strippers.

Do strippers get W-2’s

 

[Paper Boi]

Mark Zuckerberg comes out looking like the biggest bytch in all of this

kissed the ring, dressed like he an autistic jack harlow, hired dana white wife beating ass

and still got told sukk it, instagram can go die off

 

[BeeCityRoller]

Biden got played massively, leaving the white house with his head down. He will not go down in the same breath as Jimmy Carter.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

 

[HoldThisL]

Trump is a guy who starts a house fire, leaves, then shows up on the fire truck to save the day

Hero Syndrome

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

This was started by Trump who took money from META. I hope gen z understands this. Zuck paid GOP firms to slander Tiktok when he was getting his cheeks grilled by Congress.

Yep

He's definitely playing a role.

Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok

The firm, Targeted Victory, pushed local operatives across the country to boost messages calling TikTok a threat to American children. “Dream would be to get stories with headlines like ‘From dances to danger,’ ” one campaign director said.

Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok.

The campaign includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor in major regional news outlets, promoting dubious stories about alleged TikTok trends that actually originated on Facebook, and pushing to draw political reporters and local politicians into helping take down its biggest competitor. These bare-knuckle tactics, long commonplace in the world of politics, have become increasingly noticeable within a tech industry where companies vie for cultural relevance and come at a time when Facebook is under pressure to win back young users.

Employees with the firm, Targeted Victory, worked to undermine TikTok through a nationwide media and lobbying campaign portraying the fast-growing app, owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, as a danger to American children and society, according to internal emails shared with The Washington Post.

Targeted Victory needs to “get the message out that while Meta is the current punching bag, TikTok is the real threat especially as a foreign owned app that is #1 in sharing data that young teens are using,” a director for the firm wrote in a February email.

Campaign operatives were also encouraged to use TikTok’s prominence as a way to deflect from Meta’s own privacy and antitrust concerns.

That lead to executive order 13942.

Federal Register :: Request Access

Executive Order 13942—Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok, and Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu

 

[Max Power]

I was hoping for mass suicides from all the Tiktok addicts, what a shame.

 

[CrimsonTider]

I can understand why the government wanted to ban Tik Tok. News media outlets should be owned by the nationals/citizens of that state.

That's the reason Murdoch gained US citizenship.

Fox is owned by US citizens

 

[cartierhoe]

This country is a damn joke filled with people who fall for Trump's kindergarten level hijinks. Dude set this shyt all in motion from the jump but comes through trying to be Captain America at the last second

 

[FaTaL]

He's going to find himself primaried and kicked the fukk out if he doesn't fall in line that party and everyone in it are spineless against Trump

hes financed by meta and he isnt the only one

i wonder if this stops trumps picks from getting confirmed? it could

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Yep. This was a calculated move to hand Trump a very public win. I wouldn't be surprised if this was all orchestrated by Jeff Yass.

It's blatant corruption.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/14/trump-tiktok-billionaire-donors-00146892

Trump Campaign Donor's $15-Billion TikTok Fortune At Stake Over Ban Bill

As some of the harshest Republican critics of TikTok soften their stance on the China-backed social media app, one billionaire donor's name is ricocheting around Washington.

www.ndtv.com

https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-campaign-donations-tiktok-bytedance-ae21bfa3

 

[GoPro]

This whole thing has kinda also shed light on how Americans might not be able to mentally survive without social media being present.

In a hypothetical scenario, imagine if Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube were banned at the same time as TikTok; thousands, if not millions, of people across the country would probably be on suicide watch.

I don't really fukk with social media as far as TT, FB, IG, X, etc. But YT is my entertainment.

 

[jdubnyce]

This is WWE level chicanery