How is he being blackmailed by TWO superpowers? China and Russia both have his balls.
What a loser.
The far right is using TikTok to reach young demographics. Banning it directly contradicts his interests.
Yeah, all of the “vibes are off” jokes aside, TikTok is drastically different after the ban was lifted. I have gotten straight up racist and fascist propaganda on my fyp, and there are a lot of sympathetic comments on those videos. But I never got those videos before, because my algorithm was automatically filtering them out. It’s almost as if the app has been programmed to bypass the algorithm and occasionally show alt-right talking points to everyone, just in the hopes of casting as wide a net as possible.
I’ve had that experience on all social media platforms. Sometimes just straight up hard right propaganda will appear on my feed and I have to block it again and again.
How is he being blackmailed by TWO superpowers?
It’s hardly blackmail. He’s benefited immensely from the right wing turn on TikTok. They’ve got a Sword of Damacles over their heads that can drop any time the site turns against him.
He’s extorting them.
That’s rich coming from a defender of the IDF.
I’m not sure who you’re referencing to, but I’m assuming you’re not referring to me, because I despise the IDF
Maybe he likes cbt.
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Y’all, I just got my replacement tooth, so I’m finally off my mechanical diet, and I’ve been waiting months to eat some hard shell TACOS! Some SPICY CHICKEN TACOS!
a.k.a. how to own a social media platform without having to buy it.
Art of the deal.
TacoTok
Lol what a gimp
TACO deadlines are highly flexible.
🌮 🌮 🌮 I guess there is no legal basis anyway for banning video upload app, just because it is Chinese. Trump is an idiot. And 🐔
There is a legal basis: congress passed a law, the president at the time signed it, TikTok sued, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against TikTok. That’s a legal basis by definition.
Perhaps you mean that there is no rational basis. That’s a reasonable position you can argue for.
In this case, someone would have to sue or otherwise intervene. But that action is radically unpopular. Nobody wants to be that guy.
This isn’t TACO, it’s graft.
“There is no legal basis” describes everything this administration does.
PatrickStar.meme - “Is Money a legal basis?”
Going for a half win because that’s all he can do
Is anyone going to stop him? No? Then he can extend it as many times as he wants.
Tiny Taco Hands makes up the rules as he goes along. He can extend as many times as he wants, who is going to stop him?
The legal basis is someone with standing would have to sue him over it. Tiktokm certainly isn’t going to and Congress… Well.
Maybe Elmo could, now that they broke up. He could argue that TikTok existing makes Twitter’s videos less popular.
Hard to have standing over a third party not doing something to someone else that would hurt them to maybe(key point here) help you. It’s possible to argue yourself there but the bar is incredibly high. If you can’t assign direct provable causation and redress, you’re SOL.
It’s kind of like how nobody really could challenge DACA in the courts from the Republican side because all the harms they cited were hypothetical.
