Late to the post, but a friend got this on their phone when they tried opening it again

if people can't go this long without tiktok they're addicted to social media and it should stay banned

I'm starting to think of Trump as one of those old school firefighters that would set fires and then swoop in to put the fire out lol.

no it isn't

Tik Tok removed platform access from their US userbase voluntarily.

This was their choice.

The law is literally not even being enforced.

So I am assuming most Lemmy people don't use Tiktok or Meta stuff. Here is some things you may or may not already know.

• Shou (CEO) made a parting video praising Trump on the last day
• Shou will be on the stage with all the other tech billionaires during inauguration
• People have noticed the last couple days that FB and Instagram have had a "link your Tiktok account" so you don't lose anything on the platform

I think it's pretty obvious now that Tiktok is going to become a part of Meta one way or another.

I wish people knew that TikTok being banned was more about it not suppressing posts about Palestine than national security or whatever else they say. Antony Blinken and Mitt Romney outright said last year it was about stopping people from seeing the truth about Israel committing genocide. If the government actually cared about foreign influence operations they'd regulate data privacy and social media algorithms in some way (idk how, but I'm sure you could) but they obviously won't because US companies manipulating people and stealing their data is totally fine.

TikTok was a Chinese intelligence operation in the end.

Hey, look over here at the TikTok performative theatrics while we set up an oligarchy and rob you of your labor, your health, and your livelihood.

im baffled by the blase response by lemmy users to government overreach

And nothing of value was lost.

Spreading for awareness, I've been posting this in relevant threads for a week - This is all theater.

trump is going to "save" tik tok after starting the initial push to ban it (for the wrong reasons) to pretend he did something for you. Worst part is that all of the no/low info voters and non voters will eat it up.

It's the equivalent of a person pushing you into the middle of the street and at the very last second, that same person tells the drivers to all stop. "Wow, I owe you my life!"

And now, this adds two layers:

1. You think trump and the Supreme Court are colluding? now they get to say, nah uh!!!! Even though again, this is all convoluted.

2. trump gets to look "stronger" than the "highest court in the land" to help delude the next generation of low info tiktok folks.

P.s. The Chinese "protest" apps are going to mine the FUCK out of these millions of phones in the brief window they have them. Also, when the kids inevitably move back to tiktok, majority of them will leave these other apps installed on their phones, dormant and collecting in the background.