So…
Members of the government are seizing private companies for themselves?
Isn’t that why we can’t have universal healthcare or free education?
Because the slippery slope would lead to the government seizing private property?
Why are we skipping the good parts?
This is to help Elon Musk control TikTok without actually having to buy all of it.
The government share are going to be non-voting shares.
Civil forfeiture has existed for decades. Taking property for themselves hasn’t been the problem.
The media really moved swiftly back into “Stop the fucking presses, Donald Trump just sneezed twice in a row” status
boost app for Lemmy has a nice word filter and trump has been added. I’m already exhausted. I wish there was an easy way to word block on the web, since I use that more than my phone. Clearly evident, I’m on ‘web’ now <sigh>
I’ve thought about adding him as a filter but I’m afraid I’d stop getting most US news. Even if I don’t want to have any discussions about him, plenty of policy changes and laws are going to be a result of his actions and I will need/want to know about them.
Some of the different interfaces do have filters. I use Mlmym (like the old reddit interface) usually, but the Voyager interface supports filters. I took a quick look at Photon and Alexandrite but didn’t see filters in those. I think I’ll switch to usign Voyager for a while.
“Tiktok is a tool for Chinese propaganda, but we’d prefer if it were a tool for American propaganda instead.”
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.
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.
So if I’m following this correctly. The US government gave TikTok a year to sell their US operations, they did not and were blocked. Trump came in and gave them a 3 month grace period, to allow them the opportunity to sell their US operations again…
Why does he expect this is going to go differently? TikTok already showed they would rather go dark than sell.
