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> The forced US hosted tik-tok sale is all about hiding information from the US public that most people in the rest of the world have easy access to. No, at le
by palmotea 9mo ago
> The forced US hosted tik-tok sale is all about hiding information from the US public that most people in the rest of the world have easy access to.
No, at least during the Biden administration when the law was passed, it wasn't.
This shit is a lot more complicated that a hot take based on today's news.
- nashashmi 9mo agoIt was even during Biden. The idea was to stop pro Palestine videos. Anti ice videos are in the same realm
- cael450 9mo agoForcing the sale of TikTok predates the current war in Gaza by a good bit. It's obviously a complex thing that encompassed a bunch of different people with different motivations. And considering there is pro-Palestinian videos all over American social media, I don't think it is kind of absurd to think this was the motivation.
- NoGravitas 9mo agoIt started out with the "China bad" narrative, but it only got bipartisan support and momentum when US people started seeing Palestinian videos on TikTok.
- nashashmi 9mo agoThe law for a sale was passed after Gaza. The thing you talk about is data sharing with China on Americans, and some in the Trump govt were opposed to this. That part was resolved with Oracle handling their servers.