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a #Fediverse #Tiktok alternative is being built:
for those going "Tiktok is for class solidarity..." (someone wrote this crap to me!)
motherf***er tiktok is co-owned by Jeff Yass, the *biggest* #GOP donor
"crushing Tiktok is about stopping pro-#Palestinian protest organizing..."
you f***ing dingbat, Jeff Yass used Tiktok money to fund an #Israel rightwing thinktank to try to corrupt the judiciary to keep #Netanyahu in power
GET THE F*** OFF TIKTOK YOU AIRHEADS
TikTok CEO #ShouZiChew has said the company will take the fight against the new law to the courts, but some experts believe that for the #US #SupremeCourt, national security considerations could outweigh #FreeSpeech protection.
While #TikTok is a global phenomenon, it represents a small fraction of #ByteDance's revenue, according to analysts and investors. #TiktokBan #SocialMedia
ByteDance says 'no plans' to sell TikTok after US ban law
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240426-bytedance-says-no-plans-to-sell-tiktok-after-us-ban-law
ByteDance says 'no plans' to sell TikTok after US ban law
Chinese tech giant ByteDance has said it has no plans to sell TikTok after a new US law put it on a deadline to divest from the hugely popular video platform or have it banned in the United States.France 24 (FRANCE 24)
4 years ago, #China updated their export control laws to effectively block any potential sale of #TikTok.
The only options are to shut down the American subsidiary (maybe continuing service from Europe), and to go to the federal supreme court claiming that the bill violates the First Amendment. On Zhihu most think the former outcome is very likely.
Maybe we can start to bet on the outcome of the East Asian theater of #WorldWar3.
Via Sahil Kapur:
#TRUMP, 2020: I hereby sign an executive order banning #TikTok in 45 days if it isn't sold, given threat posed by China. (The order gets blocked in court.)
TRUMP, 2024: "Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok."
Rupar adds:
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C6E4d9dvlDV
Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
An important message to the 2 young people using Truth SocialThreads
“China doesn’t need #TikTok to collect data about Americans.
“The Chinese government can buy all the data it wants from data brokers because the U.S. has no federal data privacy laws to speak of.
“The fact that China, a country that Americans criticize for its authoritarian practices, bans social media platforms is hardly a reason for the U.S. to do the same.”
TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age
If the US wants to protect young people from misinformation and foreign influence, focusing on TikTok is barking up the wrong tree.The Conversation
Forcing a Chinese company to sell TikTok won’t solve the biggest problem with #TikTok: the fact that so people get their “#news” from platforms that are designed to hijack attention for commercial gain, not to deliver reliable information.
If China wants information on Americans, it can buy data from companies since there are no effective #privacy laws.
And American-owned Facebook and X have shown themselves to be as bad or worse as TikTok at spreading #misinformation.
TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age
If the US wants to protect young people from misinformation and foreign influence, focusing on TikTok is barking up the wrong tree.The Conversation
“I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” #Mike #Pence said at his first appearance with Trump in New York in 2016, driving home the gravity of his judgment.
Eight years later, Pence is asking the conservatives who followed his lead to turn away from Trump’s policy prescriptions
— becoming the most prominent exile of the former president’s inner circle to speak out in an election season.
When Trump suggested he would not push for a federal limit on #abortion Monday, Pence called it a
“slap in the face to the millions of pro-life Americans who voted for him.”
When Trump sent mixed signals on continued #Chinese #ownership of the social network #TikTok, Pence
launched a $2 million ad campaign through a nonprofit he founded demanding a Senate vote to force a sale or shutdown of the service.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/13/mike-pence-trump-conservative-movement/