I almost had a vomiting reflex. It is now pretty obvious that the whole thing was intended from the beginning to suck the small trump dick hard.

I never had tiktok and now have a superiority complex.

Not really, US propaganda, so much as Trump propaganda.

Just about everything he's done for the past decade has shown the interests of the two are mutually exclusive.

It was Trump's efforts that led to it being banned in the first place

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Any TikTok user with any sense or self respect would immediately delete the app and abandon the platform

They're now also censoring pro-Palestine content.

The US didn't take action to block the app, Tiktok did. Maybe the government would have taken action eventually. It smells like a political plan, where someone at Tiktok agreed to block the app for 24 hours as a political favor.

That makes no sense on the face of it.

First of all the ban comes from the legislative, who made a law and the judiciary who decided it applied in this case.

Secondly the executive might ignore their duty to enforce rulings for a while, sure, but that's not a long term solution, and not a big achievement.

Thirdly even Biden's executive was not enforcing the ban, apparently fearing the optics. Now we have gone from Biden's executive not enforcing the ban to Trump's executive not enforcing the ban. So there was no effective change.

Tiktok is just doing some political maneuvers here. They were the ones denying access for the last 24h for the optics. Not out of respect for the court's decision.

I mean Google Play did disable downloading it with a freeze warning about the ongoing issue.

Sucking up to Trump is exactly what any company would do right now if they want to ensure further existence and business. Musk and Zuck flipped even faster.

tbh I don't think it would have been that much different under Biden because he did say he wasn't interested in enforcing the ban which means he was also probably trying to negotiate TikTok to give partial ownership to someone in the USA. Either that or he lied for optics which is also nothing new lol.

The real threat isn't China, it's dictators from any part of the globe - whether that's Xi, Putin, or Trump. Or all 3 of them, working together.

This has extreme “future history students will have trouble thinking people took it seriously” vibes.

Hasn't even been sworn in yet, and they're already sucking him off for doing nothing.

Tankies put this one together: china, your favourite little dictatorship, is helping out your most hated almost dictatorship? How is that possible. I thought china was a chad anti usa amd imperialism state. Or maybe theyre also imperalists and just jumped on trumps dick the moment they saw they could profit from it.

Anyone else think it’s oddly convenient how this happens just after Rednote jumps in popularity?

It’s clearly pro-Trump propaganda, but I also can’t help but think there’s more than one motivation going on here. People are jumping to another platform, time to remind them that TikTok is still here! Can’t risk pulling an Elon and losing all those users to an alternative.

But I’m just thinking out loud here. I don’t use TikTok or Rednote, so I don’t know how well they compare. Thoughts?

It was so odd that they didnt mention him in their goodbye as he was the one who started that train a rolling

If you think it's bad now, look again in 4 years.

I'm particularly looking forward to "No no no no" playing over the top of a video of an ICE raid goon smashing a mother of three in the face with the butt of his rifle for trying to protect her kids, while that horrid robotic woman's voice says "get out of America bitch".