• @someguy3
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    -81 month ago

    Why does everyone think Trumps going to allow Tiktok. He doesn’t like China, and Musk is going to push him to ban it so he can buy it.

    • @Taldan
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      291 month ago

      ByteDance has a lot of money. Trump likes money. Trump’s only leverage over ByteDance is allowing TikTok, so he’ll do that in exchange for money

      Zuckerberg and Meta are much more centralized in the US, which gives Trump far more options in terms of what he can offer them. Trump will give Zuckerberg something else to placate him. Probably lots of cheap H-1B labor

    • @QuincyPeck
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      231 month ago

      I haven’t seen a comment age this quickly and poorly in quite some time.

      • @someguy3
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        1 month ago

        If you haven’t noticed Trump says a lot of things. He’s always talking out of both sides of his mouth. I’ll believe it when I see it, we’ll see tomorrow. Also, a delay is not overturning it.

        • @QuincyPeck
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          181 month ago

          It’s back now with a message thanking President Trump.

          • Laurel Raven
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            131 month ago

            Which makes the whole thing so transparent considering Trump literally couldn’t have done anything as he’s still not president yet… The whole thing was a stunt.

          • @atrielienz
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            61 month ago

            Who asked for a 50% stake in the company.

    • @suigenerix
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      101 month ago

      You’re partially right. Trump originally wanted to ban TikTok because “China.”

      However, the platform’s influence on younger voters supposedly helped him to win the election, so he now favors it.

      No surprise that Trump’s personal needs are far more important than real US security.