Burn it to the fucking ground. They only want it to make it into another GOP propaganda tool.
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Propaganda, so hot these days.
Nobody believes that this will be the issue that the GOP breaks from Dear Leader. Trump will extort both sides for the best deal for him personally, and Johnson will let him.
Ah, but if Johnson rallies votes behind him, he can negotiate the return of Tik Tok for personal gain, which is why everyone is there in the first place.
This is the guy that uses an app to monitor his son’s masturbation habits, so if he is against an app, you can be darn sure he’s serious
It will be funny as hell if out of all possible things it's TikTok that starts this round of GOP infighting.
Another test case for loyalty to Trump.
The fact that they're not interested in selling it should tell you all you need to know about what China wants to do with it
Sure Mike 🤣😂
Pure theater.
Buying it was probably the plan all along
What happened with Biden's promise to not enforce it? Is that not something the POTUS can do or is this just the legislative branch posturing?
It would probably be up to the DoJ to sue any app store that didn't remove it, so yeah it's posturing.
Regardless, as I mentioned, the ban was to remove it from the app stores, not actually shut off functionality. Tiktok's messaging this weekend was a stunt.
For anyone who wonders what the stunt was about, just look at this fuckin shit
Holy shit, no way in hell that was the actual message displayed. Its a joke right?
Oh fuck distopian timeline is moving forward pretty fast. So glad I dont live in the US and wont have to make the choice of living as a slave or dying for people that dont want to be freed.
100% not a joke
It's not just to take it out of stores, the law states providing internet hosting services... Which would complicate it functioning here.
Sec. 2) This division prohibits distributing, maintaining, updating, or providing internet hosting services for a foreign adversary controlled application (e.g., TikTok).
Today is the last day of Biden’s presidency so he is completely irrelevant to what happens now.
But doesn't that make it more apparent that bytedance is in on the ruse? Shut the app down while Biden is still president even though his administration says they do not plan to enforce the ban and then bring it back the second Trump is president? (They already brought it back with a notice that thanks President Trump)
It's not about Biden, it's about the executive branch. And the incoming dumbass has already said he's gonna save it, so it is relevant.