Summary
The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump’s request to delay a law banning TikTok or forcing its sale by Jan. 19, 2025.
TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, claims the ban violates First Amendment rights, but the DOJ argued the law targets foreign ownership, not free speech, and passes constitutional scrutiny.
Trump, despite opposing a ban publicly, asked the Court to extend the deadline to seek a political resolution.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Jan. 10, with the ban set to take effect before Trump’s inauguration.
With all the bullshit that’s about to go down, I’m having trouble caring about this anymore. All these social media platforms are data harvesting dumpster fires. Eliminating this one isn’t going to do much, except probably put a bunch of Americans out of business.
Eh this is the one social media that the oligarchs can’t censor so I’m fine with it sticking around. I’d rather have options than Elon and Zuck controlling the majority methods for average joes to get information out. Cause it doesn’t seem like the fediverse is going mainstream for a while
What evidence do you have that oligarchs in any nation cannot influence your TikTok algorithm? Like… we should assume they can by default until proven innocent.
Even if it’s just a competing team of oligarchs fighting over who can produce the most amount of animosity and mistrust of the other, they’re going to accidentally stumble across some shit that the other one doesn’t want you to see and then they’ll show it to you.
It turns out we don’t have any way of getting clean unbiased sources so the best we can do is just have a lot of different ones with different biases since there is no such thing as clean public media anymore.
…except probably put a bunch of Americans out of business.
If you mean “influencers” or the ultra wealthy, then good. They deserve to go out of business.
Shut up Merrick you goddamn coward fuck. You had four fucking years to actually do your job, you can’t just pretend you weren’t sucking the wannabe mango Mussolini’s dick this whole time.
I suppose it all depends on who donates more to his inauguration fund.
He fucking asked for it during his first mandate!
The difference is Russia knows how to manipulate Tik Tok now, as recent events in Romania have made abundantly clear. They no doubt used it to help Trump get elected.
Primarily due to kids fucking with his rallies. But now Dems decided to risk the income of a few million Americans and the circuses of a couple hundred million Americans for no real reason. So it’s an easy political win for Trump if he can stop it, while of course enriching himself and his donors that have stakes in bytedance.
Sorry, “a few million Americans” make their money from TikTok? When did this start?
There’s a shop. TikTok is the modern Etsy, where you can literally watch your product get made.
That sounds like it would be a minor side hustle for a few hundred thousand people and a major source of income for maybe a couple of hundred at most. I doubt it’s a few million.
I doubt it’s in the millions too, but it’s definitely a significant number, not just a handful of people.
…have you never heard of influencers, the number one job kids want to do when they grow up in every poll done on the matter since 2012?
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Garland desperate to be remembered for succeeding at anything even if it’s just banning fucking TikTok
