Omg Trump saved TikTok, the only thing half the country cares about.
He needs to wait to see which side is paying him more before he acts
True. And either way he wants to project the idea that he gets to decide if a platform lives or dies.
The law made that true. If you read how it is was written it states that any social media company that the president deems a threat can be blocked. Aka he doesn’t need new legislation to block any other social media company, he can just say something like “rednote isn’t majority owned by the U.S. and I think it is a security threat, block it” and it legally would have to be blocked now.
“(2) a social media company that is controlled by a foreign adversary country and determined by the President to present a significant threat to national security”
Does Trump even have any use for donor money now that he’s president?
Greed is a mental illness. There’s never enough.
Trump said he hadn’t made a final decision but was considering a 90-day extension of the Sunday deadline for TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell to a non-Chinese-buyer or face a U.S. ban.
All he is doing is trying to give US companies more time to buy them out. Fuck that, don’t give in on this one, Tiktok.
If the US wants to regulate social media, then they can regulate all social media equally legally instead of handing another service off to Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg or some other similar sleazebag.
Just regulate the algorithms, it’s that easy. Not that I’d like to see how Trump would regulate them, but you know what I mean, in a normal country.
If it was going to be blocked and they were going to be out the money anyways it would be interesting to see if they could somehow move it to activity pub to screw over the U.S. ownership of large social media companies. The federation would make the instances run around the world and no longer controlled by a foreign government, and therefore unable to be blocked by the clause thrown into the funding terrorism bill.
Just enough time for Elon Musk to sweep in and buy it
It will be a three clients auction: his pal Elon, the new friend Mark and Xi
