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WTF is going on with TikTok?

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The sequence of events as far as I can recall:

  • Trump promised to ban TikTok
  • TikTok was slated to be “banned” in the twilight of Biden’s term
  • Trump says he’d give it 90 days to make a decision
  • Biden decides not to ban it, handing it off to Trump
  • TikTok goes dark
  • It returns, but if you search for something anti-Trump in the United States, you can’t find it
  • Using a VPN will give you that content
  • Various news outlets are now calling it Trump’s “Propaganda Arm”

What the fuck is going on? From a political or technological standpoint.

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drascus@sh.itjust.works
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samus12345@lemm.ee
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Trump has all these companies by the balls.

Which happened because they unzipped their pants and placed their scrotums in Trump’s tiny hands.

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4grams@lemmy.world
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And then smiled and said “squeeze”.

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drascus@sh.itjust.works
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well in some cases they were on the verge of being regulated or in the case of Google being threatened to be broken up. So a lot of this seems like self preservation which is just sad.

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Dessalines@lemmy.mlD
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US does US things.

Inevitable commenter: This is just like in China!

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