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[-] tonytins@pawb.social 257 points 5 months ago

Glad everyone is pointing out how much this reeks of propaganda.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 141 points 5 months ago

keep repeating it and don’t stop. im already seeing tiktok users saying they aren’t coming back. and i think that’s a good response.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 63 points 5 months ago

new tic tok challenge dropped, delete tic tok (impossible)

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 28 points 5 months ago

can't delete what you never had in the first place.

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[-] TechnologyChef@lemmy.world 129 points 5 months ago

Yup, since Trump was the original one who sought to ban it in 2020 likely as a guise to get support under what people use propaganda for as a 'common enemy' . Then he appears to save it continuing the rescue from false claims for those who don't see what is really happening.

See this video of how insensible people can be in the case of TikTok: https://youtube.com/shorts/8qWVs0T4LEw?feature=shared

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[-] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 122 points 5 months ago

This is so transparent... Trump isn't even president yet, there's nothing he could have done... The whole shut down and return is a stunt to make Trump look like a hero

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[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 105 points 5 months ago

Just like the Gaza ceasefire, this is just more political theatrics to make Trump look like a strong negotiator lmao.

Too bad people don't realize he's a fucking sellout to other psychopathic nations from Russia and China, to Israel.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months ago

to other psychopathic ~~nations~~ leaders

Sorry to nitpick. I know you didn't mean it this way. I just think that characterizing entire nations shifts the blame and reduces accountability, so I'd rather we specify who the psychos are, preferably by name. And I only say this as someone who has been on the receiving end and think to myself, "wait a second, this is a person I voted against and it's their stupid decisions, not mine!"

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[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 83 points 5 months ago

Everyone is saying this is propaganda. I think its possible there's an even stupider reason.

Trump is so nakedly easy to manipulate sometimes. This might be the ego fluffing he needs to reverse the ban.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 76 points 5 months ago

Are there any papers on how fascism buries you in these sorts of irritating authoritarian stupidity?

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

Highly recommend The Reactionary Mind to really understand modern fascism. Anti-intellectualism is a necessary part of the formula.

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[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

He's not even president yet and TikTok went offline voluntarily. No one but TikTok has done anything regarding the ban, and all they did was flip a switch off then back on. More young folk than I thought are very skeptical or even staying off it because they rightfully distrust Trump. It's like they chose the devil they didn't know to get away from the devil they did, and now both devils are there. Im sure many will stay however.

[-] joenforcer@midwest.social 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You have too much faith.

Most won't stay away. Most are deeply and horribly addicted. They faced their withdrawal symptoms for one day. They get got their next hit and now they're in deeper than ever before.

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 5 months ago

See: Reddit API debacle

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[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 68 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 65 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 35 points 5 months ago

Congrats! I saved you from being punched (by me).

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[-] Letme@lemmy.world 59 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 42 points 5 months ago

You think too much of the average brainrotter

[-] amon@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

That's the neat part

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[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's literally just China destablizing the US, same as it's been for years. It doesn't have to make sense. Weeee 🙃

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[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 47 points 5 months ago

So pretty obviously what happened here was that Trump and the Chinese authorities struck a deal by which Trump would be given credit for not enforcing the ban that both he and Biden had already said they had no intention of enforcing.

The interesting question is: what did Trump give China in exchange?

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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 46 points 5 months ago

Wasn't it his idea to ban it in the first place, to try and force a sale to a US company? Given that hasn't seemed to have worked, I wonder what changed to make him change his mind, was it just that Biden went through with it, or did they bribe him, or maybe just so he can go tell users that he "saved" one of their favorite social media apps?

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[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago

Just when you thought trump's dick couldn't get any smaller.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago

And somehow keeps getting sucked. Fuck this stupid country. Wish I could leave.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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".

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[-] Soltros@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago

This shows you how bad the propaganda attempt went. They should have left it gone long enough to hurt, so people would really be mad. Now it just looks weird and a clear attempt to make Trump look good for Monday.

[-] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 months ago

On Twitter though there's already people praising Trump for saving TikTok

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Twitter is a propaganda machine too? It's going to sort and surface that kind of thing.

A huge, common fallacy is that there's any kind of fairness in what rec algorithms prioritize to serve.

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[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

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

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

Also odd that they self banned, Biden explicitly said he wasn't bothering to enforce.

So TikTok blocked themselves just to suck up to Trump.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 24 points 5 months ago

they did mention him :/

this was the first message that came before the one in OP

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[-] CircuitGuy@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

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.

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[-] Sekoia 35 points 5 months ago

What the fuck? He's not even president yet. They disappeared for like a day total?

Reality needs to stop being so poorly written this is so on the nose

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

Fuck TikTok and fuck trump. Tbh it was always weird that he was so against something I hated so much. It makes so much more sense for that scumbag to be cozied up to that bullshit

[-] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

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[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

He's literally not even president yet

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 22 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 months ago

the only thing missing here is a little banner ad for $diapercoins

[-] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

Live video still isn't back on TikTok; which is probably the most useful part of the platform during demonstrations. It's much more useful than local recording in case your phone gets seized to have it broadcast to others sitting at home, who can screen-record the stream as evidence.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

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?

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