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Is this a coup by conservative government to gain control of this social network to promote it's ideologies? first Twitter, now Tiktok, both controlled by cons
by ElijahLynn 1y ago
Is this a coup by conservative government to gain control of this social network to promote it's ideologies?
first Twitter, now Tiktok, both controlled by conservative interests?
- UncleOxidant 1y agoSeems like it. It seemed kind of inevitable. Biden made a mistake going down this road - of course, Trump started the ball rolling during his first term, but Biden should've just left it alone because it wasn't hard to see that this was the likely outcome.
- tw04 1y agoBiden? You do realize Trump attempted to “ban” TikTok in his first term when the original Oracle “deal” happened, right? Pinning this in Biden takes some serious mental gymnastics. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/20/914032065/tiktok-ban-averted-trump-gives-oracle-walmart-deal-his-blessing https://www.npr.org/2020/09/20/914032065/tiktok-ban-averted-...
- UncleOxidant 1y agoYeah, I do realize that and in fact mention it in the comment above: of course, Trump started the ball rolling during his first term. Not "pinning" it on Biden, per se, but he is the one who signed the bill. It would have been much better to leave it alone. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/tech/congress-tiktok-ban-what-next https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/tech/congress-tiktok-ban-what...
- whyenot 1y agoBiden signed the bill.
- 1121redblackgo 1y agoWith very large and rare bipartisan support
- BeFlatXIII 1y agoThat's how I knew it was a direct attack on the American people.
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- ribosometronome 1y agoDo you suspect Biden had a little plaque on his desk saying "The buck stops somewhere else"? He signed the bill. If he didn't want to own it, he doesn't have to put his name on it.
- dfxm12 1y agoNo one can seem to remember who was president in 2020...
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- fogzen 1y agoYes. And to enrich their buddies and campaign donors like Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
- pstuart 1y agoThat's bonus. The real thing is to make tiktok a right-wing ideology machine. I'd rather have the CPC than the GOP at the helm.
- NicoJuicy 1y agoThe GOP is still more incompetent than anything I've ever seen. Bullying, yes. Competency, no.
- dghlsakjg 1y agoSo incompetent that they control all three branches of the most powerful government on earth. Much of that can be credited to their media ownership strategies. Underestimate them at your own peril...
- klipt 1y agoThe unfortunate thing about democracy is that competency at getting elected doesn't always translate to competency at governing.
- pstuart 1y agoThey are stupid, but also ruthless and willing to ignore the laws they don't like. They are also surrounded by billionaires that want them to keep it going. Look at how Larry Ellison is buying up Paramount/CBS and soon, Tiktok. They just took Kimmel off the air. Again, I know this sounds like histrionics on my part but what is happening now is not normal -- the fact that all "old school" republicans have left the GOP and it is now literally the Party of Trump. And they have millions of cult members who are itching to use their second amendment rights against "non-Americans". I desperately want to be wrong, and would love credible evidence that could demonstrate this.
- CharlieIsAHero 1y ago[flagged]
- LeafItAlone 1y agoI’m not sure what you are saying… Are you suggesting that US Conservative viewpoints are aligned with those of China’s government?
- renewiltord 1y agoWell we’re clearly in the “don’t interrupt your enemy while he’s making a mistake” territory.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoAllied, not aligned.
- zappb 1y agoThis law passed during the Biden administration, but its implementation has been delayed repeatedly by the Trump administration.
- estearum 1y ago> but it has been broken repeatedly by the Trump administration fixed that for you The bill itself outlines specifically how and why it can be delayed. That was violated in the very first "delay".
- buckle8017 1y agoTurns out not having any penalty for the executive failing to apply the law is a mistake. Who could have predicted this.
- conception 1y agoThere is a penalty just congress has to enforce it.
- buckle8017 1y agoThe only penalty congress can enforce on the executive is cutting the budget of things the executive wants funded.
- smw 1y agoor impeachment?
- estearum 1y agoAlso this only matters if the Fed is independent. If it’s not, the President can direct it to purchase unlimited treasury bonds, effectively printing unlimited money to fund any program it wants. Paired with this administration’s assertion of impoundment powers and the pocket rescission, the Congress’s power of the purse is completely neutered in both directions. The executive can decline to spend whatever it doesn’t want to, and it can fund anything it does want. Recklessly funding the government off of the Fed’s balance sheet will of course cause all sorts of nasty economic effects, but that’s exactly why you need to print money! So your massive immigration enforcement apparatus (newly full of ideological minions thanks to the current hiring surge) can go and assert powers of process-free expedited removal throughout the entire country (per DOJ memo from week 1). So the economic consequences hardly matter: you simply deport whoever complains.
- dfxm12 1y agoIt's a page in the conservative playbook going back a long time, from consolidating newspapers to talk radio to TV stations and now a new type of media...
- bandyaboot 1y agoAnd now we see them getting main stream networks on a leash. Edit: Not to mention universities. It’s crazy how quickly civil institutions are being consolidated by the right. They have gone all in and there appears to be insufficient appetite to stop them.
- peanuty1 1y agoIt's a coup by pro-Israel interests like Larry Ellison and Andreessen Horowitz.
- no_wizard 1y agoThis has been floating around since the end of the first Trump administration, where neither of these interests were accused of being “pro-Israel” but only entrance narrative after the current Palestine debacle: Therefore I’m only left to conclude this is an entirely unsubstantiated claim, as why wouldn’t it have already been apparent if they were working as shadow brokers of Israeli interests in all this, which the general timeline and verifiable information we know don’t line up with?
- PieTime 1y agoIs this an AI comment? They have vast business interest and contracts with Israel.
- sporkxrocket 1y agoThe people who have been very vocal about forcing US ownership of TikTok have also been very, very open about their Zionism on social media. A16z has been pushing for this hard since the start of the genocide. Zionists blame "TikTok" for their opposition. They even call the younger people who don't support Israel the "TikTok Generation". This along with the consolidation of other US media assets under Zionist control, is very much about Israel and attempting to gain a monopoly on the media.
- SilverElfin 1y ago> This along with the consolidation of other US media assets under Zionist control Conspiracy theory.
- sporkxrocket 1y agoCNN, CBS, TikTok, Zionist bot networks. You can’t argue with facts.
- panarchy 1y agoRussia Today American Edition
- selimthegrim 1y agoI mean why not unban them too?
- frollogaston 1y agoBiden was on board with the TikTok takeover, and it had support from both left and right wing pro-Israel groups.
- clemailacct1 1y agoSounds like you preferred it when it was controlled by liberal interests.
- rs186 1y agoLiberal interests ≠ Democrat government
- frollogaston 1y agoNext time Dems win elections (if that's ever), it will be. Politicians on both sides are happy about this.
- tail_exchange 1y agoIt's only a problem for the GOP if Dems do win elections again. Judging by how things are progressing, it may not happen anymore. They have complete control over everything.
- BatteryMountain 1y agoSuppress the "enemies" and bolster "allies". Oh and mindfukc the children to fall in line.
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