>Current users of the app will be asked to shift to a new app
So it's just going to fade into obscurity then huh
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#32I hope this is sounding alarm bells for everyone else as much as me.
Larry's son buys Paramount (CBS) and promptly fires Stephen Colbert, a money making machine who was leading his timeslot as what was, in hindsight, a clear message to everyone that nobody is safe if they don't fall in line.
Larry now gets TikTok, which like it or not is the most influential social media platform among today's youth.
Both are Trump fanatics. This is the next stage in the Ailes playbook that has already gone too far in ruining the American experiment.
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#33The most terrifying thing is there will be a trump-government representative in the governing body. We are truly looking at 1984 as a blueprint not a warning.
You can just not use TikTok.
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#34I hope this is sounding alarm bells for everyone else as much as me. Larry's son buys Paramount (CBS) and promptly fires Stephen Colbert, a money making machine who was leading his timeslot as what was, in hindsight, a clear message to everyone that nobody is safe if they don't fall in line. Larry now gets TikTok, which like it or not is the most influential social media platform among today's youth. Both are Trump f…
> Stephen Colbert, a money making machine
Unfortunately not: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/business/media/stephen-co...
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Why is it that for nearly every story involving a Jewish name, someone has to come in and complain about Israel? Besides, there are plenty of venues to criticize Israeli policy and actions, especially if you do so respectfully.
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#36so US users will be cut off from the rest of the world? Wow. Thats crazy.
TikTok in China is already cut off from the rest of the world. The US is just copying China's homework.
We are doing state capitalism without China’s “serve the people” bit. Hm, maybe there’s a name for that type of government, idk.
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#37so US users will be cut off from the rest of the world? Wow. Thats crazy.
Wouldn't surprise me if a lot of global users ended up using the US app instead of TikTok.
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#38What does this “stake” get America at all? Will they be able to change the algorithms or censorship or amplification on TikTok? The point of the ban was to avoid national security issues from having an adversarial state (China) controlling speech in America. Banning it entirely is the best way to avoid these problems. As a reminder, TikTok forces staff to sign pledges to support China’s political system in order to w…
>Banning it entirely is the best way to avoid these problems. Too popular to ban. Political constraints. >Will they be able to change the algorithms or censorship or amplification on TikTok? "An Asia-based investor of ByteDance said the new US TikTok entity would use at least part of the Chinese algorithm but train it in the US on American user data." ________________ I'm not sure you're looking at this the right way…
>(which would probably be an actual digital privacy framework)
The ban wasn't executed on digital privacy concerns. The intent of the original ban was on digital privacy concerns, and that was shot down.
>The Intel stake is the same - barely thought out. If you haven't noticed, this has been a common theme in many policy decisions lately.
The TikTok ban passed under Biden, and the ball was kicked to Trump so he would deal with the political fallout. But the reason the ban passed the second time around was because China would not censor content about the Gaza genocide. The ban had no legs until October 7th and TikTok frustrated the US/Israel message that Hamas was homicidal terrorist group that spawned from no where.
What seems obvious is that, yes, the new TikTok, will fall in line with other US owned social media companies when it comes to spreading US propoganda.
So while Chinese social networks have "What happened in tiananmen square?", US social networks will have "Is Israel committing a genocide?".
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#39I hope this is sounding alarm bells for everyone else as much as me. Larry's son buys Paramount (CBS) and promptly fires Stephen Colbert, a money making machine who was leading his timeslot as what was, in hindsight, a clear message to everyone that nobody is safe if they don't fall in line. Larry now gets TikTok, which like it or not is the most influential social media platform among today's youth. Both are Trump f…
> Stephen Colbert, a money making machine Unfortunately not: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/business/media/stephen-co...
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#40Oracle owning TikTok is one of the most unintentionally funny things to ever happen.
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