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WTF is going on with TikTok? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe you didn't get the memo all of big tech has decided to shill for trump. google, facebook, tiktok, amazon, X, they all met with trump and kissed the ring and decided to do what they do in other dictatorship countries like China which is censor anything the administration doesn't like to get concessions from that administration. Trump has all these companies by the balls.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trump has all these companies by the balls.

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

[–] 4grams@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

And then smiled and said “squeeze”.

[–] drascus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

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.