Just wait 'til truth.social and xitter run the country. Wouldn't be surprised if TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, MySpace, WeChat, LinkedIn, Reddit, Pinterest, Discord and Tumblr all get banned.
Trump said he'll unban it, if he does that'll be the one brightside of the new admin
I don't see it as a bright side, but I also think it should be unbanned. Don't get me wrong, I think TikTok is cancer and nobody should use it, but I also don't think the government should decide what propaganda I get to consume.
The government should absolutely do a public campaign against it and keep a close eye on it, but don't ban it.
In the meantime, we should look into passing laws to solve the underlying problems, which would impact Meta and other big social media orgs as well. Or maybe fund independent social media alternatives that are FOSS.
But don't ban speech. Banning TikTok feels a little too close to banning books...
Well this is going to go extremely poorly.
In other news you can't shit in the street anymore either.
That implies that social media is going to be banned; it isn't. The only thing this ban does is punish Tiktok for allowing content that revealed Israel's genocide.
The thing about freedom of speech is that we are only allowed speech that doesn't threaten the interests of the oligarchs. If any speech creates a real movement that threatens the oligarchy then the government takes swift action against it (hence outlawing socialism during the red scare)
The ban will not stand up and, because he had no core principles and is an opportunistic scoundrel, when this fails inevitably, trump will folly shift position and reframe/embrace the failure as deliberate action he took to "give tiktok back to the young people". He'll then do his double jerk off dance on the white house account and cement another couple decades of loyalty from the underinformed gen zers who will make up the bulk mass of humanity that officially drives us into full "ouch my balls" idiocracy
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