• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    Future of America actually looking kind of good with Trump on Trial and TikTok being forced to sell.

    Let’s keep the ball rolling.

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      7 months ago

      His lawyer argued presidents can assassinate their political opponents at the Supreme Court today, and as if that’s not bad enough, they seem receptive to it.

      These are dark fucking times.

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          7 months ago

          When they’re literally being forced to sell the price will drop and the billionaire class would be happy to take over the social media site with all the potential young voters.

          They won’t win many voters by taking over TikTok, but they can absolutely convince people to not bother voting, which is all they really need to win.

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      7 months ago

      Tik Tok won’t be forced to sell. Even assuming the the ban survives the various lawsuits, the most that will happen is that the app will be banned (on American app stores) and Tik Tok will continue on like nothing happened. Americans are a minority on the app.

      On top of that “China” only owns about 20% of the company, the rest is international investors.

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        7 months ago

        ByteDance saying they might rather shut it down than sell it shows that operating a silly dance app for profit was never their motive. The fact that at the mere notion of a forced sale our politicians were bombarded by death threats shows the platform was already weaponized.

        The USA has less to benefit from the destruction of the USA compared to China. I wouldn’t be surprised if people’s personal data was given directly to the gangs running “Pig Butchering” scams, too.