Trump says new US sovereign wealth fund could purchase TikTok

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• That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If the US owns Tiktok, then any bans or censorship would be a violation of the first amendment, right?

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  • knightly@pawb.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A government employee owns Twitter, too.

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    • BearGun@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      While you are correct, and xitter is essentially the social media arm of the government now, i believe that that doesn’t legally mean that it’s owned by the government.

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    • BearGun@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      While you are correct, and xitter is essentially the social media arm of the government now, that doesn

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund and suggested that it could be used to purchase TikTok. […] Trump has said previously it could be funded by “tariffs and other intelligent things,” per Reuters.

  So. Taxpayers pay taxes → taxes go to fund → taxes are used to buy TikTok, probably at inflated prices (like Musk buying Twitter). And likely with the same type of censorship coming from the alleged “free speech warriors”.

  …aren’t those same guys who babble all the time about “free market”?

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  • lori@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The guys that are telling us they have to dismantle the entire government because it costs too much wants the country to buy TikTok

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  • CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The third step is they “sell” it to their cronies for pennies, who profit all the way to the bank.

    You’re about to get robbed.

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    • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not. I don’t pay taxes to USA. I’m mostly watching this roll out while eating popcorn.

      Locally [Brazil] speaking, if the United-Statian government bought TikTok, I wonder what the judiciary would do, given that it blocked Twitter for a month.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Malicious socialism.

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• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wow, what a surprise heh ? If TikTok becomes a new Shitter, that will have devastating effects on younger people… Even more so than what it actually does.

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