Man, I really hope he does the double-flipflop on this and bans it again. Because Tiktok pulled the stunt this weekend to kiss his ass, blocking the app preemptively for the USA and crediting Trump with "saving" it with the popup message. This would be most disruptive to the propaganda pushers on both sides of the globe, and piss off the most people against them.

"Donald Trump says dumb fucking thing after other dumb fucking contradictory thing"

Bidding war. Zuckerberg paid more.

Your move China.

Imagine having your entire business plans hanging on the whims of this orange dickhead.

This is leverage, nothing more. He has every intention of saving it. He's just going to make sure that he gets his cut and assurances that any anti-Trump videos be scrubbed and any searches return no results. And he wants to make sure they continue to do what he wants, when he wants, and the way he wants by literally hanging a potential ban over their heads that he can sign into effect by EO at the stroke of his favorite sharpie.

It is literally a Mafia protection racket on steroids.

Check bounced? Nah he got the check and it cleared and the world's tiniest gear spun in his head and he thought "what if 2 checks?!?!!?".

How does this lower the cost of my eggs?

That was a strange video to listen to. He wants the US to own half... Like nationalizing the platform?

They must not have reached the expected bribe level.

Did the check not clear?

I was sticking with rednote anyway.

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I think it's a threat to ensure that TikTok does what he says. Lots of reports (that I as an Australian can't verify before it works for me) of searches for Trump incriminating videos are returning no results since it came back. It feels like there were conditions on not banning TikTok.

Guess they didn't donate enough to his inauguration fund.

I'm getting whiplash from all the backtracking and it's only day two.

He's talking big so that Tiktok sells their US operations to Elon. Then he gets to take credit as a deal maker.

Did tiktok not offer to kiss his ass or pay him tribute like all the other companies?

let me guess? Zuckerberg phoned him up and reminded him of all that lovely lobby money that had been shared around!

He meant that TikTok's gratuities are worth less than Zuckerberg and Musk's.

A platform that probably helped him a lot becoming the president. How ironic.

Old man yells at rock. Old man becomes friend with rock. Old man yells at rock.

After it filled up with pro-trump propaganda and started blocking hashtags based on who Trump hates, I went back to Rednote for now until our "free" nation bans that to maintain the capitalist oligarch narrative on major social media. We can talk about Luigi there.

I'd rather be propagandized by them than Zuck and Elon and Bezos and Donnie. Their people actually seem to believe they owe one another basic decency and courtesy. It's refreshing.

"Herp derp genocide!"

When there's a non distributed, aka popular and populated, social network that isn't the product and propaganda tool of a genocidal nation, I'll defect to that, but I haven't heard anything about a civilized, admirable nation like Norway launching a competitor.

What a capricious shit.

He says it like it is

Wasn't that how like half of maga justified voting for him? I see how that one's going

Lmao is Trump negging them.

I wonder how much of this is him realizing that there's nothing he can do to save TikTok...