Man, I really hope he does the double-flipflop on this and bans it again. Because Tiktok pulled the stunt this weekend to kiss his ass, blocking the app preemptively for the USA and crediting Trump with "saving" it with the popup message. This would be most disruptive to the propaganda pushers on both sides of the globe, and piss off the most people against them.
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It will be especially funny because they have had a lot more conservative type join as well, and based off everyone complaining about their "algorithm" it seems like those types are enjoying themselves...
it amuses me that people expect anything else from his presidency. it will be a "highest bidder wins" war.
"Donald Trump says dumb fucking thing after other dumb fucking contradictory thing"
The Onion should just print this headline every day for the next 4 years.
Nah, that's too realistic for The Onion. It needs to be something like, 'Pandemonium Ensues After Trump Utters First Coherent Sentence.'
And this strategy works for him just fine. People who like him will believe the thing they want to hear and some of the people who would have opposed him will be confused and delay action because they think maybe it's just going to work out and they should focus elsewhere.
This is leverage, nothing more. He has every intention of saving it. He's just going to make sure that he gets his cut and assurances that any anti-Trump videos be scrubbed and any searches return no results. And he wants to make sure they continue to do what he wants, when he wants, and the way he wants by literally hanging a potential ban over their heads that he can sign into effect by EO at the stroke of his favorite sharpie.
It is literally a Mafia protection racket on steroids.
The irony of trump saving it only to make it considerably more dangerous for American stability when it was originally banned because it was dangerous for no explained reason. A tiktok that caters to trump should be banned, but doing so is the only way not to be and well "corporations gonna corporate".
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Bidding war. Zuckerberg paid more.
Your move China.
Imagine having your entire business plans hanging on the whims of this orange dickhead.
I suspect it's a share price influencing game with some of his pals.
Check bounced? Nah he got the check and it cleared and the world's tiniest gear spun in his head and he thought "what if 2 checks?!?!!?".
How does this lower the cost of my eggs?
You missunderstood. This ends the war in Ukraine
free market dynamics.
you see, more people with eggs become financially desparate enough to sell their eggs to survive in this shithole country. this generlaly lowers the market value of those eggs.
the egg extraction process can be painfu... oh. nevermind.
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That was a strange video to listen to. He wants the US to own half... Like nationalizing the platform?
He wants his cut, like the mafia
To "wet his beak"
I don't think he understands the difference between a government and a corporation. Like, he imagines the US is just his now. Just a big hotel, he can buy and sell bits of it to make money. Buy Greenland and Tiktok, sell Puerto Rico and the USS George Bush. Add a cover charge for Canada and Mexico.
To be fair, at this point there is barely any difference.
Obviously not like that, but wants it privately owned by his "American" cronies... like Elon
Interestingly, there were rumors that during those meetings in the article putin asked the oligarchs for half, but would provide protection, government subsidies,etc. So 50%, but more money then ever possible. Those that balked got thrown out a window.
Trump says US, but might really mean himself.
Did the check not clear?
Meta dropped a bigger check maybe.
Elno reminded him he owns both X and Trump.
Probably did. Could easily be a grifter move to dupe them into writing another check. Suckers.
They must not have reached the expected bribe level.
The deal was switched to a subscription based model.
Or meta paid even more to make it go away
He logged in and instead of seeing people praising him, he saw people continue to mock him and call him a dumb, fascist, piece of shit.
I think it's a threat to ensure that TikTok does what he says. Lots of reports (that I as an Australian can't verify before it works for me) of searches for Trump incriminating videos are returning no results since it came back. It feels like there were conditions on not banning TikTok.
Guess they didn't donate enough to his inauguration fund.
I'm getting whiplash from all the backtracking and it's only day two.
I was sticking with rednote anyway.
spoiler
I was sticking to not joining social media owned by people who want to make profit with my info...
He's talking big so that Tiktok sells their US operations to Elon. Then he gets to take credit as a deal maker.
What pisses me off the most is that he blatantly places no consideration about the security implications of this decision. It is just about making a deal for his tech bros.
He doesn’t give a flying fuck about the country. He’d burn it all down if it could turn a profit for him.
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Did tiktok not offer to kiss his ass or pay him tribute like all the other companies?
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let me guess? Zuckerberg phoned him up and reminded him of all that lovely lobby money that had been shared around!
He meant that TikTok's gratuities are worth less than Zuckerberg and Musk's.
Old man yells at rock. Old man becomes friend with rock. Old man yells at rock.
A platform that probably helped him a lot becoming the president. How ironic.
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