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And they're already kissing Trump's ass

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Spreading for awareness, I've been posting this in relevant threads for a week - This is all theater.

trump is going to "save" tik tok after starting the initial push to ban it (for the wrong reasons) to pretend he did something for you. Worst part is that all of the no/low info voters and non voters will eat it up.

It's the equivalent of a person pushing you into the middle of the street and at the very last second, that same person tells the drivers to all stop. "Wow, I owe you my life!"

And now, this adds two layers:

  1. You think trump and the Supreme Court are colluding? now they get to say, nah uh!!!! Even though again, this is all convoluted.

  2. trump gets to look "stronger" than the "highest court in the land" to help delude the next generation of low info tiktok folks.

P.s. The Chinese "protest" apps are going to mine the FUCK out of these millions of phones in the brief window they have them. Also, when the kids inevitably move back to tiktok, majority of them will leave these other apps installed on their phones, dormant and collecting in the background.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 20 hours ago

I think there's an even simpler explanation: political debt to Jeff Yass (15% tiktok owner) and his cash for the 2024 campaign.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-jeff-yass

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

TikTok turned the youth pro Palestine whereas Facebook and Xitter censored it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

And those same youth then gave us an oligarchy, useful fools

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I did some research and now I know why Trump wants to "save" TikTok.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-tiktok-courted-conservatives-before-trumps-win

https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/tiktok-and-white-supremacist-content/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/on-tiktok-misogyny-and-white-supremacy-slip-through-enforcement-gap

https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-tiktok-accounts-spreading-extreme-right-propaganda-and-glorifying

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/16/congress/tiktok-sponsor-trump-inauguration-party-00198825

This one is especially damning:

TikTok is spending $50,000 on an inauguration party honoring influencers who helped Donald Trump spread his campaign message, according to the party organizer — and it’s scheduled for Sunday, the deadline for the company to spin off from its China-based owner or be banned in the U.S.

CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to attend.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

$50,000

lol peanuts aren't that damning... Capital in USA is spending millions and millions on Trump's inauguration.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5227874/trump-bezos-zuckerberg-amazon-facebook-open-ai-meta-inauguration-fund

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Well yeah, it’s no secret that TikTok had a white supremacy problem. There was a researcher who discovered that they could make a brand new account and (by only interacting with certain types of content) get white supremacists on their For You page within 20 minutes. Algorithmic feeds are funny like that, because they just gauge engagement. The algorithm isn’t making any moral decisions on whether the engaging content is socially acceptable. For better or worse, it just goes “this person likes this content, so I’ll show them more.”

[–] [email protected] 226 points 1 day ago (27 children)

And now Trump gets to be the one who saved TikTok, despite starting the process.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That second paragraph is just vile. Donny brought this ban into motion and now they say he will save them?

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (14 children)

I know bad for democracy and everything but

This app has done nothing positive for my life, arguably began my social media addiction, filled my brain with negative content at the height of COVID and severely impacted my mental health

I don't think governments should ban platforns. But do I think TikTok should have ever existed? No

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Surreal watching the rest of the internet freaking out. Meanwhile we are just sitting here on our own platforms doing our own things.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Personally, I never saw the appeal of TikTok anyway.

Then again I also was never interested in Twitter.

I guess my attention span isn't short enough for that type of sites.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's likely just staged bullshit so he can be the savior.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The entirety of global capitalism is lining up to bend the knee and gargle fascist balls.

This is what leftists have been warning forever. Capitalism wants the monopolies, bailouts — the political, financial and military backing, etc — that state-capitalist dictatorships provide. Democratically elected governments, acting in the interests of the people, are really the only threat to the corporate oligarchies wealth and power.

All of the wests "enemies" are equally supportive of fascism, because state-capitalist dictators are easier to influence (bribe).

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