orange man will "look into it"...code phrase for "how much will you add to my bank account"...
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TikTok Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Temporarily Block Upcoming January Ban
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Labeling these as ‘concerns’ and ‘suggestions’ is a third-worldie propaganda slop.
TikTok is a weapon of mass destruction. It has already caused immense damage to Western societies and must be dealt with ASAP. Free speech is a cool concept and all, but not when the most popular media outlet is controlled by an adversary who wants to destroy your country.
TikTok IS the Chinese government. They are mining user information as we speak, and certainly not for a good cause. Data protection laws are meaningless in dictatorships.
I sure hope the Trump administration goes full blast on this. It won't be a popular decision, especially with younger audiences, but it's the right one for the long term.
He will likely backstab scotus, like he has done to other promises he made, and backstabbed.
In the regards of preventing foreign government access, China’s rule is comparatively more reasonable —— local (Chinese citizens’) data stay local (inside China territory). Thus, companies can choose either to comply and stay in business in the country, like Apple’s iCloud, or to willingly withdraw, like Google and Facebook. The US rule of “must sell to a local company” is too much to an extreme.
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Apple won't. Why would they?
DEFINITELY block X. It's now Saudi government propaganda owned.
Tiktok has a special version for china so that should tell you all you need to know.
Live streams use to be interested but now TikTok live mostly turned into battles and QVC. I won't miss it no more.
Ban it. Also, if you're over the age of 25 and have a TikTok account, go get some help.
Does the US do this for anyone right now, or would that be unprecedented?
Also, for someone with as many resources as TikTok, I don't think moving would be that hard... how much effort will the ISPs put into a game of whack-a-mole?
Apple could go nuclear and just send the command to uninstall TikTok off every iPhone.
I work with a lot of small businesses and these platforms are so much help to them.
If you’re over 25 and worried about what under 25 yrs old are doing, go get some help.
The app is dumb, but I couldn’t care less who uses it.
My first political comment. This is not how to convey the value of freedom to the rest of the world.
Enjoy your right to not be banned for saying the wrong political thing.
That’s not what Freedom means under the U.S. Constitution The way I read it, it is the right of “The People" to choose what they want, and not a single person. Good luck with that….
Facebook, Google, and other American companies' services are blocked in China. So it is ok for them to block our companies but not for us to do the same? Screw them. Let them taste what it feels like. Block TikTok now.
Seems like you're the grandpa that shakes his fist at a cloud.
Businesses on TikTok generate over 25 BILLIONS yearly to the US economy. Those sales supports jobs.
What do you say to the business owners and people who make a living on tiktok? Get some help?
China can go pound sand. Once they stop ripping off US companies IP, creating viruses in labs, sending spy drones across our soil & intentionally devaluing their currency then maybe they can talk but til then it's past time to play hardball with these jokers.
January 6th is your day of reconing Xi. Playtime is over and President Trump's coming to clean house.
January 6th is your day of reconing Xi. Playtime is over and President Trump's coming to clean house.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…. You get what you deserve I guess.
I would be surprised if the SCOTUS will take the case much less offer a stay. The law was written specifically with the idea of defending against the “freedom of speech” defense and so far every court has accepted the secretive “national defense” argument without question. And the current makeup of the SCOTUS is highly unlikely to reverse that trend.
It is clearly obvious that there is zero likelihood of legislative relief.
The new chief executive (AKA the orange guy) has recently sounded sympathetic to reversing the ban. But previously he was the leading proponent in favor of the ban. And he regularly just lies and changes his stance. He also has a lot “bigger fish to fry” and it would be surprising if he would bother “burning politician capital” on this topic.
ByteDance has had 9 months to weasel out some sort of compromise. And they literally spent all their capital on the “freedom of speech” defense that the laws was specifically written to defend against. That hubris is likely now to cost them a boat load of money. There were other potential defenses (e.g. other companies (x, fb) gather and sell the same data to anybody (china, Russia, Iran) and picking on TikTok is commercial bias) but ByteDance stayed solely with “free of speech” argument.
It is clearly obvious that there is zero likelihood of legislative relief.
The new chief executive (AKA the orange guy) has recently sounded sympathetic to reversing the ban. But previously he was the leading proponent in favor of the ban. And he regularly just lies and changes his stance. He also has a lot “bigger fish to fry” and it would be surprising if he would bother “burning politician capital” on this topic.
ByteDance has had 9 months to weasel out some sort of compromise. And they literally spent all their capital on the “freedom of speech” defense that the laws was specifically written to defend against. That hubris is likely now to cost them a boat load of money. There were other potential defenses (e.g. other companies (x, fb) gather and sell the same data to anybody (china, Russia, Iran) and picking on TikTok is commercial bias) but ByteDance stayed solely with “free of speech” argument.
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Signed off by both parties in Congress and the President. Yeah it's over for TikTok. SCOTUS can't save them and probably won't even try to. Adios.