Donald Trump has submitted a filing to the Supreme Court regarding the TikTok case brought by the Justice Department, which the court will decide in the coming session. The lawsuit brought by the DOJ alleges "violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and its implementing regulations...

Summary

Donald Trump submitted a Supreme Court filing opposing a TikTok ban, citing his “dealmaking expertise” and promising to resolve national security concerns.

The brief advocates delaying the case to allow Trump to address it politically.

Legal experts criticized the filing for being overly self-promotional and unprecedented, with some mistaking it for satire.

Critics noted its unusual tone and highlighted the involvement of Trump’s potential solicitor general pick, D. John Sauer, in drafting the document.

The case concerns TikTok’s alleged violations of privacy laws and ties to China.

  • thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
    614·
    21 days ago

    All the while in China TikTok is forbidden. They have a Chinese version called Douyin, and it limits the content to educational instead of entertainment and the time spent to maximum 2 hours for people under 18.

    What does it tell you that the Chinese government itself wants to protect their people from the influence of TikTok?

    It’s simply a propaganda tool to influence people and it keeps them addicted using an algorithm. It’s a highly specialized psy ops tool. It makes the world dumber and uses the same addictiveness to educate the Chinese at the same time.

    • hark@lemmy.world
      152·
      21 days ago

      If that’s sufficient for a ban, then most or all the rest of social and mass media would qualify as well.

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
        43·
        21 days ago

        I think part of the argument here is the very asymmetric nature of Chinese social media that makes their intentions rather obvious. They banned almost every foreign website/app or heavily restricted them like almost no other country did. They aren’t even allowing their own apps when they’re not primarily made for domestic use. It’s a tool to control people and that’s how the Chinese government uses it. It’s not just another corporation trying to turn a profit by wasting our time with nonsense and only destroying democracy as a byproduct like Facebook. Destroying Democracy is the point of TikTok as we’re seeing all around the world where it aggressively pushes anti-democratic content.

        • theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          15·
          21 days ago

          Just a reminder, Tiktok isn’t a Chinese app nor is it a Chinese company. You racist conservatives need to come back to reality. Or go back to the fox news comment section.

      • thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
        32·
        21 days ago

        Tell me what other social media use separate versions and time limits between countries?

        But I agree that other social media should be regarded critically as well. It’s just that china takes a very obvious approach trying to shield their own people from the obviously effective propaganda machine they created.

        • hark@lemmy.world
          6·
          21 days ago

          I don’t know about time limits, but social media does get censored on a per-country basis depending on the government of each country. Also, each person has their own tailored content based on the algorithm that it might as well be considered a different version.

          We could just as easily mandate restrictions on data or require timers for children on social media instead of doing a full ban. Note that the US was fine with keeping tiktok if they sold to an American company. Something tells me the brain rot would not be lessened and no special timer would be implemented by the new ownership if it were to have gone through.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
      2·
      20 days ago

      Oh yeah my brother loves his TikTok and so does my dad. I watched my brother he will just endlessly scroll and watch the dumbest shit you can imagine. That not even all the alt right shit he consumes on there. Hell I had to do a quick google search to prove a post as fake. Some rando says the tiger king was pardon or Biden was rounding up trump supporters and my brother bought it. I prove both post wrong and tried to explain that it was a propaganda tool to keep him stupid and in the dark. Still uses it.

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    21 days ago

    promising to resolve national security concerns

    The guy with boxes of TS documents in his bathroom suddenly cares about national security? I don’t think so.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    17·
    20 days ago

    This was always the tactic. gop attacked tiktok, which is extremely popular, if trump lost they’d insist on the “ban” and try to hang the unpopularity of the move that they demanded on Biden. If trump won, they’d chicken shit away from the move, claim trump “saved” something to try to grab opportunistic popularity moment as fuel for the next ghoulish move they need to make publicly that will lose them goodwill.

    America is decidedly fucked. The general public isn’t equipped to see below the surface layer of this shit.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    20 days ago

    I feel like we used to refer to future executives as “President-elect” in the period before they took office. But then I’m an American, what the fuck do I know?

      • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
        7·
        20 days ago

        Yes, former presidents retain the title. Obama is still respectfully addressed as “President Obama” by non-racists.