Meta Mistake II - Jackin Joggin Woke Grok

[Andalusian girls]

jesting aside i dislike both Tik Tok and the Chinese government, which is a far worse entity than even this terrible American government, but banning it is an absolute violation of civil liberties through an unconstitutional suppression of free speech. dissemination of speech is more than ever online and the government utterly fails to meet the twin standards of proving Tik Tok represents an exigent risk to national security, and that the suppression of speech is the minimum possible to remedy that concern. but the judiciary is corrupted and SCOTUS is a joke so here we are.

everyone more concerned with old men yell at clouds posturing against brain rot to recognize the government does not have the right to infringe upon individual liberty like this.

[Sirious]

Anywhere I don't owe 100k, can't get a house for under 500k, and one hospital visit away from bankruptcy and homelessness is going to sound better.

Bet they have cheaper eggs too. And public transport. and cheaper cars.

[6souls]

I prefer reels anyways

[Milkster]

Look dude I can appreciate the concerning precedent and celebrate the death of that abhorrent shit stain of an app they're not mutually exclusive.

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This is so incredibly short sighted. The owners of the biggest social media apps in the world are now openly supporting and flocking to trump and can have him delete or remove any opposition to Meta or X. Literally state run media. Cable News and media is owned by a few billionaires, also converging around Trump and his brand of fascism. But hey it's better for you than someone in China.... for now.

[Mrbeansman]

Tiktok spread the anti Israel shit that got Trump elected btw.

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[Milkster]

Uncommitted used all social platforms btw. It started in Michigan and they were on all social media platforms.

[Milkster]

Didn’t Facebook start Arab spring and get Trump elected the first time?

[Athas]

I prefer reels anyways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1gtzaRj5UU&ab_channel=therealsamalkhatib

[Krandor]

Stop trying to make shutting down tiktok about Trump.

He isn't the one instituting this ban and the supreme court unanimously upheld it today. Are we adding Sotomayor/Kagan/Jackson to the list of judges for sale?

[archibaldcrane]

I'm sympathetic to the argument that we shouldn't wait for a confllict to break out and get evidence that the CCP is controlling the Tiktok info flow for propaganda purposes to ban it.

Every other argument is pretty weak tho

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[Meresgi]

Anywhere I don't owe 100k, can't get a house for under 500k, and one hospital visit away from bankruptcy and homelessness is going to sound better.

Bet they have cheaper eggs too. And public transport. and cheaper cars.

Whoa there commie, calm down.

Tiktok's algorithm is amazing and the US is just pissed they don't have hands on it and want it. Facebook/Twitter all the others are gobbling up user data and selling it off to the highest bidder and government anyways and censoring people talking about Palestinians being human beings. The US removing this though is hilarious because we're in the Rome is Burning down and we have the coliseum for entertainment phase and the US was like "lol nah fuck your fun"

[Kaisha]

I've seen countless Reddit posts claiming that China is far superior to America in terms of healthcare, quality of life, and basic wages. This demonstrates that people on the left can be just as gullible as those on the right when influenced by curated news feeds, especially since these posts seem to be coming primarily from liberal users spreading this narrative.

Did they memory hole the pandemic and China's complete lying about the event or something? That's also ignoring the fact their country employs a social credit system, so god forbid you speak against the accepted standard.

[Milkster]

Didnt Trump lie about the pandemic and then America started leading the world in deaths because of lies and propaganda spread by him and the republican party? To the point healthcare workers were being attacked just trying to work?

[Starby]

My 22yr old apprentice told me straight faced this week that "I can't believe doctors were killing people with ventilators during covid. The ventilators were worse then the disease"

These people revise history so fluidly it's astounding

[arus2001]

We're kind of in a bad anti-intellectual phase of the US so this whole "exceptionalism" schtick they're simultaneously trying to ride on is silly as fuck. Any greatness we have is pretty much in spite of efforts to hinder or dismantle with the usual capitalistic parasites doing their thing. Could be worse, sure, but could also be exponentially better. China doesn't need to be a hypothetical paragon to recreate social comparisons elsewhere. Gun violence, healthcare, workers' rights, etc.. Take your pick. Main European country following in our decaying conservative footsteps would probably be England a la Brexit and shit, to which you have to wonder how much the shared language plays a role.

[Byrthnoth]

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/456...-united-states

[Outlaw]

I hope they ban it because it would spoil everybody's fun. People need to read more.

Also

President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker in a phone interview Saturday that he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a potential ban in the U.S. after he takes office Monday.

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.

Trump’s support for TikTok is a sharp reversal from his stance during his first term, when Trump signed executive orders to ban not only TikTok but also the Chinese messaging app WeChat. Trump’s attempt at the time was blocked by the courts. His reversal came after he met briefly with one of the app’s billionaire American investors last year.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...ban-rcna188258

The law that Biden signed allows for the 90 extention for someone to try to buy it.





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[Krandor]

Bytedance has known this was coming for years now and apparently not even attempted to sell it.

[Byrthnoth]

Given its valuation and antitrust law, the only viable buyers are Apple or Microsoft, no?

[6souls]

Given its valuation and antitrust law, the only viable buyers are Apple or Microsoft, no?

And Elon