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Post by piva00 »

duxup wrote: post #20
bix6 wrote: post #19

> one member designated by the US government. Why does the board of TikTok need a gov member? Is Meta going to get a gov chaperone too? And Oracle surely needs one as well. Is the gov putting out a call for board member civil servants? Like where does this person even come from?

Same reason they put a guy at CBS as a "bias monitor": https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-fcc-cbs-ne... They want their guy to make sure things go their way / people say the "right" things.

Didn't expect to see the USA employing press censors in my lifetime but here we are.

In Brazil during the dictatorship it was common for newspapers to print cooking recipes in place of censored articles, now I'm waiting to see if media in the USA has the balls to play the malicious compliance game... I guess I won't see it since money is basically God in America.

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Post by dns_snek »

dijit wrote: post #104
6510 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I don't believe for a second that you're being downvoted by someone with multiple accounts. You're being downvoted because you tried to frame a lukewarm observation (that brought receipts!) as some insane conspiratorial hot take in a really transparent manner, while simultaneously misrepresenting it (zionists vs jews) and ridiculing it (flat earth comparison).

Re: U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

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Post by Retric »

throwawayqqq11 wrote: post #48
volleyball wrote: post #41

So Larry Ellison just took over Paramount group which is now looking to bid for Warner Brothers and CNN. And now Ellison is going to take over TikTok. Paramount(being run by Larry Ellison's son) is looking to install the pro-israel-propagandist who has variously masqueraded as a liberal, a conservative and anti-woke free-speech champion, Bari Weiss[1] as CBS's editor-in-chief or co-president[2]. It also bears mention…

Thank you for providing the media take over angle. I wish the people down voting you would explain why.

He’s got the wrong guy on the paramount deal. It’s David Ellison though they’re related:

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/paramount-warner-bros-disco...

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Post by elzbardico »

palmotea wrote: post #88
elzbardico wrote: post #2

Oracle owning TikTok is one of the most unintentionally funny things to ever happen.

> Oracle owning TikTok is one of the most unintentionally funny things to ever happen. I'm hopeful. With any luck they'll ruin TikTok and it will die, a satisfying result.

First they will start launching TikTok Enterprise.

An all-buzzwords compliant subscription based solution for enterprise and professional content creators.

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Post by Retric »

spacechild1 wrote: post #57
volleyball wrote: post #41

So Larry Ellison just took over Paramount group which is now looking to bid for Warner Brothers and CNN. And now Ellison is going to take over TikTok. Paramount(being run by Larry Ellison's son) is looking to install the pro-israel-propagandist who has variously masqueraded as a liberal, a conservative and anti-woke free-speech champion, Bari Weiss[1] as CBS's editor-in-chief or co-president[2]. It also bears mention…

This is just crazy. No single person should have this amount of power, in particular if they have the moral integrity of Larry Ellison...

It is two people here. David Ellison who took over Paramount is the son of Larry Ellison of Oracle.

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ellison

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Post by jacobolus »

Retric wrote: post #114
throwawayqqq11 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for providing the media take over angle. I wish the people down voting you would explain why.

He’s got the wrong guy on the paramount deal. It’s David Ellison though they’re related: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/paramount-warner-bros-disco...

David Ellison is Larry Ellison's son, and Larry Ellison spent $6 billion on the Paramount deal. It's not really a stretch to imagine that the father might have some influence on the resulting operation. (According to a cursory web search, on paper Larry Ellison now has a 35.5% voting interest and David Ellison has a 64.5% voting interest.)

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Post by paxys »

volleyball wrote: post #41

So Larry Ellison just took over Paramount group which is now looking to bid for Warner Brothers and CNN. And now Ellison is going to take over TikTok. Paramount(being run by Larry Ellison's son) is looking to install the pro-israel-propagandist who has variously masqueraded as a liberal, a conservative and anti-woke free-speech champion, Bari Weiss[1] as CBS's editor-in-chief or co-president[2]. It also bears mention…

Nothing hostile about it. This is what the American people voted for.

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Post by otterley »

volleyball wrote: post #41

So Larry Ellison just took over Paramount group which is now looking to bid for Warner Brothers and CNN. And now Ellison is going to take over TikTok. Paramount(being run by Larry Ellison's son) is looking to install the pro-israel-propagandist who has variously masqueraded as a liberal, a conservative and anti-woke free-speech champion, Bari Weiss[1] as CBS's editor-in-chief or co-president[2]. It also bears mention…

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