“Tiktok is a tool for Chinese propaganda, but we’d prefer if it were a tool for American propaganda instead.”
The fact that they only targeted Tiktok already shows their motives. They claim that Tiktok is a powerful tool for data collection and propaganda. They claim that’s too dangerous to leave in the hands of China.
However, all the other social media companies (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc) are all equally as powerful. There’s only one difference between them: who controls the propaganda.
Remember, Zucc was a big sponsor of the TikTok ban!
Lol they already know tic tok would rather pull out of the market over giving it to America. But Ya now they’ll sale to Musk
Don’t think he realizes how problematic it would be for the government to have a stake in any company that actively removes posts. Suddenly they’re forced to allow far more speech than they previously did.
Yeah, but who’s going to enforce that?
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Oh so they do wanna kill TikTok.
They want to enrich the in-crowd and cement complete media control of the US.
Pretty sure they already did. Turning it into a right wing boomer platform is going to chase all the kids away and with it whatever broader cultural relevance it might have had.
So…
Members of the government are seizing private companies for themselves?
Isn’t that why we can’t have universal healthcare or free education?
Because the slippery slope would lead to the government seizing private property?
Why are we skipping the good parts?
This is to help Elon Musk control TikTok without actually having to buy all of it.
The government share are going to be non-voting shares.
Why shouldn’t the taxpayer subsidize another company of this grifter?
Because he is the puppet master.
Because that’s what’s been going on for a while now?
Exactly right, fuck the plebs.
No health care, no maternity leave… We got no money for that.
But we got money to make President Musl rich!
Civil forfeiture has existed for decades. Taking property for themselves hasn’t been the problem.
Shares are special type of property in this country
Government can seize your house for public good… But never owners shares in his grift!
Oh, but it’s fine when the government is made up of corporatists.
All of this because some dude in the country with more guns per capita in the world, can’t shoot for shit.
And because almost 400 million other people didn’t even try.
because he did such a great job with twitter
Depends on how you look at it.
People really have hard time understanding that jsut because plebs get fucked, it doesn’t mean it is not a W for the owner class lol
When the primary journalistic nexus is systematically dismantled does the owner class chalk a W?
… Unfortunately yes. He just translated money into power
Well, depending on how you see it, he definitely did
I mean, this was probably the point from the beginning. I’m sure this has been their plan since they saw that he could turn a place like Twitter into a propaganda machine in just under a year. I’m probably just grasping at straws here, but it seems pretty sus that the TikTok ban only started gaining traction around the time Elmo turned Twitter into a shit hole.
If they nationalize it, even partially, they’re not gonna be able claim any loopholes on government censorship by letting third party platforms do the dirty work.
Government stake in TikTok! You think he can’t be dumber. And yet, he surprises you every day.
This may be going off on a tangent, but it seems appropriate here. I am sick and tired of hearing about every little minutia of clickbait bullshit related to Trump. If Musk wants to buy and tank TikTok, great. I don’t give a fuck one way or another. Trump isn’t buying TikTok, and I truly don’t give a shit what his opinion is on it.
I want to stay aware of current events in my country. If the president signs an executive order, I want to hear about it. I don’t want to hear about what his friends are doing. I couldn’t care less who made his wife’s hat. I’d rather watch paint dry than a video of him and his wife dancing. I hate that I know he consumes McDonald’s slop and Diet Coke in the oval office.
People argue about how news outlets are biased right or left. The real problem is that news outlets are just entertainment outlets, and not legitimate journalism. I don’t care if you’re reading Fox News or CNN; you’re still going to wade through a river of worthless celebrity worship before you actually find something of substance. Scroll down far enough, and you won’t be reading about Trump any more. Instead, you’ll be reading about which actors are fucking each other and the latest and “this year’s hottest budget-friendly Temu styles that are now made of only slightly toxic synthetic fibers.” If you’re lucky, you might find an article about how some random nobody met another random nobody on vacation and got married. Good for them. I’m glad they’re happy. I still don’t give a shit.
Great. Don’t engage then. But somewhere between 30 and 50 percent of Americans use the app. It’s fate is national news.
While I agree with the sentiment, I’d say this qualifies as news. Elons not buying shake shack, he’s buying a social media platform with a very opaque algorithm that has the power to influence a large chunk of the American public. Even if he tanks it, twitter has shown that through network and data ownership combined with sheer inertia many people will remain on an app even after its been revealed to have its thumb on the scale for one side.
In addition to that, they’re suggesting a government stake, which likely means using taxpayer money to help him subsidize it. Hmm. Where have we seen that before?
LOL
I remember when President Obama suggested investing in Solyndra in order to save it and stop China from overtaking the energy market and Republican blew their lid but I guess they’ll be ok with wasting billions nationalizing a terrible social media app linked to multiple deaths of kids.
past political motives and descisions are dead, now is the Trump era.
China keeps taxes low by investing directly in businesses instead of shelling out grants and tax breaks. It’s been incredibly effective.
