• @[email protected]
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    25 months ago

    Lol they already know tic tok would rather pull out of the market over giving it to America. But Ya now they’ll sale to Musk

  • @[email protected]
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    185 months ago

    This may be going off on a tangent, but it seems appropriate here. I am sick and tired of hearing about every little minutia of clickbait bullshit related to Trump. If Musk wants to buy and tank TikTok, great. I don’t give a fuck one way or another. Trump isn’t buying TikTok, and I truly don’t give a shit what his opinion is on it.

    I want to stay aware of current events in my country. If the president signs an executive order, I want to hear about it. I don’t want to hear about what his friends are doing. I couldn’t care less who made his wife’s hat. I’d rather watch paint dry than a video of him and his wife dancing. I hate that I know he consumes McDonald’s slop and Diet Coke in the oval office.

    People argue about how news outlets are biased right or left. The real problem is that news outlets are just entertainment outlets, and not legitimate journalism. I don’t care if you’re reading Fox News or CNN; you’re still going to wade through a river of worthless celebrity worship before you actually find something of substance. Scroll down far enough, and you won’t be reading about Trump any more. Instead, you’ll be reading about which actors are fucking each other and the latest and “this year’s hottest budget-friendly Temu styles that are now made of only slightly toxic synthetic fibers.” If you’re lucky, you might find an article about how some random nobody met another random nobody on vacation and got married. Good for them. I’m glad they’re happy. I still don’t give a shit.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Great. Don’t engage then. But somewhere between 30 and 50 percent of Americans use the app. It’s fate is national news.

    • @[email protected]
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      185 months ago

      While I agree with the sentiment, I’d say this qualifies as news. Elons not buying shake shack, he’s buying a social media platform with a very opaque algorithm that has the power to influence a large chunk of the American public. Even if he tanks it, twitter has shown that through network and data ownership combined with sheer inertia many people will remain on an app even after its been revealed to have its thumb on the scale for one side.

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        45 months ago

        In addition to that, they’re suggesting a government stake, which likely means using taxpayer money to help him subsidize it. Hmm. Where have we seen that before?

  • @[email protected]
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    685 months ago

    “Tiktok is a tool for Chinese propaganda, but we’d prefer if it were a tool for American propaganda instead.”

    • @[email protected]
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      285 months ago

      The fact that they only targeted Tiktok already shows their motives. They claim that Tiktok is a powerful tool for data collection and propaganda. They claim that’s too dangerous to leave in the hands of China.

      However, all the other social media companies (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc) are all equally as powerful. There’s only one difference between them: who controls the propaganda.

  • @[email protected]
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    45 months ago

    If they nationalize it, even partially, they’re not gonna be able claim any loopholes on government censorship by letting third party platforms do the dirty work.

  • katy ✨
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    405 months ago

    I remember when President Obama suggested investing in Solyndra in order to save it and stop China from overtaking the energy market and Republican blew their lid but I guess they’ll be ok with wasting billions nationalizing a terrible social media app linked to multiple deaths of kids.

    • Golden Lox
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      75 months ago

      past political motives and descisions are dead, now is the Trump era.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      China keeps taxes low by investing directly in businesses instead of shelling out grants and tax breaks. It’s been incredibly effective.

  • Kokesh
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    45 months ago

    Government stake in TikTok! You think he can’t be dumber. And yet, he surprises you every day.

  • @[email protected]
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    245 months ago

    All of this because some dude in the country with more guns per capita in the world, can’t shoot for shit.

    • socsa
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      15 months ago

      Pretty sure they already did. Turning it into a right wing boomer platform is going to chase all the kids away and with it whatever broader cultural relevance it might have had.

  • @[email protected]
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    95 months ago

    Why would China want to sell the lucrative secret TikTok algorithm to the US government?