living in America when you consider it unethical to use products from X, Tesla, Meta, Alphabet, TikTok, Amazon, Starbucks.
one thing it does is sow marital discord.
@eARCwelder i agree that right now things are very fluid! and i agree TikTok (or CCP) might prefer to leave if the alternative is a JV. (why would that be better than the divestiture they refused?) i also agree that Apple and Google and Oracle should comply with the law, whatever Trump says about not planning to enforce it. so there are lots of ways and reasons TikTok might stay gone! 1/
@eARCwelder but if Trump wants to open the door, temporarily pr permanently, for TikTok to basically continue as it has (perhaps with some token concessions, like DoJ's antitrust "consent decrees"), why on earth wouldn't it? to its capitalist owners, the US is a huge market in which it's enjoyed great success. too CCP it's an intelligence and propaganda gold mine. /fin
Wouldn't it be more compelling if they just had an image of Donald Trump looking tough and noble as a full-page splash screen on launch of the app? https://pixel.kitchen/@jenn/113856624080710538
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just for the cognitive dissonance, it’s worth noting it’s not just billionaires and greedy capitalist businesses. if you listened to his #LexFridman interview, Zelensky also was going out of his way to flatter Trump. understandable, but it always is. arguably more forgivable under the circumstances.
@Phil is there?
not with a bang, nor a whimper, but with a TikTok.
@relentless_eduardo executive orders cannot override acts of Congress. name a Biden executive order you think did that. there are, of course, gray areas. but this is not one. Congress passed a law explicitly to ban TikTok if ByteDance did not divest it. it did not grant the President the authority to waive or delay it.
will Apple restore ByteDance apps in the app store without an Act of Congress legalizing it? https://infosec.exchange/@kevinrothrock/113856239877276512
“dictator on day one”
@TMRuppert @w7voa i guess i’d prefer the state-owned media result to that.
@eARCwelder Why would they?
$TRUMP is the first crypto coin that has a real shot at being currency-like, because it’s the first crypto coin for which there’s a credible threat the coercive power of the state might be used to engender demand.
i can’t believe how much the fate of the republic might turn on the TikTok ban.
if Trump issues an Executive Order, firms like Apple decide they face greater risk defying Trump than violating black-letter law, and Congress does nothing, he’s successfully dictated, that’s dictatorship.
there is no such thing as the vibe so it cannot actually shift.
only Congress can fix this.
(assuming the Constitution and rule-of-law still apply)
autobiography as much as politics, @phillmv is amazing and i’m delighted to learn so much about them. http://okayfail.com/2025/i-met-pg-once.html
Trump wants TikTok to become state-owned media! https://journa.host/@w7voa/113855771597485176
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nobody is really happy to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed tonight.