Isn’t tiktok a chinese asset? And hasn’t china famously refused to dance to Trump’s discordant tune?
Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”
Submitted 5 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/trump-says-tiktok-should-be-tweaked-to-become-100-maga/
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ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 5 months ago
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Lol, xenophobia and ignorance: the classic Westerner combination
ech@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Missed the news, eh?
FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 months ago
Trump is forcing them to sell their American operations to American owners or be blocked from operating in the US.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
They were forced to sell to a us based group.
Vitaly@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Nah, cut the middleman and work on brains directly by using an ancient technique called lobotomy
shiroininja@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m glad I never installed that shitty app
NormalOnNSFW@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
I used it for the first and last time after Charlie Kirk, because it was one of the few places where the memes were more or less unmoderated. They’re going to have a fun time trying to crack down on that I guess.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Mobile web or bust.
And man have some websites gone bust…
dickalan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I used to be like you I used to think it was just full of young kids doing silly dances, turns out a lot of information doesn’t really need more than two or three minutes to explain it and everything else is fluff so yeah, it’s a great place. I don’t know where this hate comes from.
shiroininja@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Short form video is the single best propaganda machine there is. You don’t get context, so it’s easy to manipulate events. Also, for some reason, people really fall for the “authority” of since rando talking into a camera like they know what the hell they’re talking about.
Every time somebody shows me a TikTok video as a reference or to make a point, the information is either fake or completely incorrect.
Not to mention, The algorithm feeds you more of these talking heads and makes you think it’s the general consensus
zwerg@feddit.org 5 months ago
Then why not write a blog? I hate videos. If Im looking for information, give me something I can scan and digest properly.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
For me its general dislike for influencers and platforms where people are encouraged to put a face behind content, go viral, and make money off of tend to attract those type of content made by those who end up coming off like aspiring infomercial hosts. Like labubu I didn’t even know about until South Park, so it was like kind of awe inspiring what a huge hive mind of mass reach it can be for those part of it.
But then again I don’t like twitch and most big YouTube content creators either for a similar reason, so might be just an anomaly.
I’ve like more the social media where people interact for the sake of interacting, since the foundation for potential monetary pay off or fame just is really poor for that. So more message board type stuff like lemmy, reddit, and old school forums.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Gen Z is so dumb that they’re all going to be Nazis is 6 months.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Its the billionaires against the working class, not generations fighting generations.
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
As an older Gen Z, this generation is very split. The Gen Z in their twenties are extremely progressive and left-leaning, whereas younger Gen Z are deep in the alt-right pipeline. Obviously this doesn’t apply to everyone, but Gen Z really is two generations smooshed into one.
regedit@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
It’s the incel/red-/black-pill bullshit. I am an older millennial, turned 41 yesterday, in fact, and I have noticed the split in the gen-Z generation. At some point a lot stopped trying to grow as a person and started blaming women and minorities for why they were single and unfavorable to their preferred mates/society. Accountability and integrity just sort of stopped mattering to them when it became easier and more socially acceptable to be a shitty person and still gain fans/clout/etc.
Then comes along all these ‘bros’ who sell them this idea that their problem is just not being a big enough dick and being rich, loud, and large, Eden if you have to fake it until you make it. They promote the debunked study of alpha males and champion the grind, self-made mentality while pinning the blame for their future failures on outside factors like immigration and higher ed.
I had high hopes that we could unfuck the world together, with the leadership of gen-Z, but I didn’t think republican enough about how far the backslide would be. Now, I just expect to see the world crumble as the younger gen are lambs to the slaughter for the wars, sports, and land grabs of the ultra-rich.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Looks around everything is still fucked on earth and climate change is gonna kill us all, did it even fucking matter we didn’t become Nazis -mostly S . Seriously I want to leave.
scintilla@crust.piefed.social 5 months ago
You see that you’re doing the generations thing right? Like you are doing the “lazy millennials” thing but just at a different generation. You’re falling for their propaganda.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Let’s see how many of Gen Z Americans get off TikTok after it becomes more of a propaganda machine. I wonder how European kids feel about it. They went through Covid and missed part of an already terrible education. So now they have no idea that they are just being programmed to be a bunch of assholes. I think it will work. If we don’t find a plan to do something, we are in bad shape. We need Project 2029.
Soup@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Only 54% of Gen Z voted for Harris and Gen Z males have a pretty big far-right problem. It’s not random nonsense about eating dirt or being on their phones, they’re actually being pretty fucking awful at way too high a rate for people that young.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
How does even decide when the various generation start and stop it seems so random.
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Most of Gen Z are in their twenties and capable of thinking for themselves. Generally speaking, they’ve grown up accustomed to and accepting of neurodivergence, gender fluidity, and the spectrum of sexualities.
It’s the younger and older generations I’m more worried about.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They’re also MUCH more susceptible to misinformation and propaganda than the “in-between” generations. They aren’t as affected by traditional media, sure, but their new media sources are heavily propagandized, with visibility manipulated by the worst people in the world. They might HEAR about the dangers of misinformation or propaganda in the periphery, but with their primary interface being a handful of apps on a mobile device, there’s not much they can do about it without extensive education they aren’t getting.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 months ago
I scoff at your statement, O' Lizard!
egrets@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Psst… O, not O’ - it’s the vocative particle, not a contraction of of or on.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I wonder if gen Z has media literacy. I am expecting approximately 0% to discontinue TicTok as result of the acquisition.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 months ago
As if we didn’t already know he was thinkjng that?
xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So like X.
glowie@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Oh no, it’s news about TikTok. Are we going have people complain about it being posted here again?
QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Doesn’t he want it to make money?
frongt@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Why would he? He’s crashed every other business.
wirebeads@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
This is nothing but outright propaganda designed to assert themselves in a good light.
America: you are fucked.
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 5 months ago
More than America is fucked.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
notsure@fedia.io 5 months ago
... i Beg Your Pardon?...
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Whenever conservatives argue or demand that something be changed because they want it to … you know that any change they make will only last as long as the money if flowing.
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Good thing they don’t have the skills to do it and make it attractive to the currect users. I’m fine with Larry Ellison’s losing billions in the process.
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They literally did that with Facebook. Yeah, plenty of people left, but it worked.
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Yeah, facebook didn’t do that. Facebook is “popular” with the old 50+ and force use in developing countries. The more right FB goes, the more they lose younger people. It’s the snake eating it’s own tail.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 5 months ago
Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100%
Me says posts that start with “Trump says” should be tweaked to become 100% invisible.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The moment Trump says any sort of number the event should just end, return to your regularly scheduled programming, no need for any further attention because you know for a fact that everything he says past that point is complete fiction without a shred of usefulness to anybody.
No one’s going to convince me that an accurate numerical figure has ever passed through that man’s lips, and if it did, it was a cosmic accident.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ignoring the problem won’t make it go away, though
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Perhaps it would be better to focus on the insane shit he is doing and not the insane shit he is saying (which distracts from the doing).
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Someone should time travel back to the early 20th century and tell the labor organizers that settled for the New Deal this fact.
fluxion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It would if they didn’t own all the media companies and got undue attention for their insane lies
kokesh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fuck you orange cunt
maxwebster93@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I said something similar on Reddit and got permanently banned lol! America stands by watching as this clown turns his country into a dictatorship. Worst neighbors ever!
Plum@lemmy.world 5 months ago
He lacks the warmth and depth
WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
We actually live in a world now in which the President of the United States explicitly states his intent to overtly violate the first amendment and the media just repeats it as if nothing of any note is going on.
merc@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
the media just repeats it
The media reports on it, attempting to do so from a neutral point of view.
I actually appreciate that the professional media is still attempting to stick to a neutral point of view. If they abandon that, you get media like MSNBC and Fox News where every single news story is discussed from a certain political point of view. That just sorts people into camps that listen to the news source that agrees with their perceived notions, which then radicalizes them even more.
If people can’t agree on a basic set of facts, then there’s no point to having a democracy. A media that covers the facts with as little bias as possible is essential to that working.
That isn’t to say that I think the media is doing a great job. The big media companies that are owned by the oligarchs are doing especially badly. When Trump does something like this, responsible media that’s attempting to be unbiased should at least connect historical dots, like other times that presidents have threatened the media, and what the results of that have been.
mrmanager@lemmy.today 5 months ago
I think we actually get to understand now how Hitler came to power. I remember in school, I was mystified how such an hateful man could become a leader of a country. Now I understand.
rayyy@piefed.social 5 months ago
Best advice: Chop wood and carry water, or in other words, prepare for hard times and be careful of which side you are on.
Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] 5 months ago
Every 80 years, some country has to repeat this shit. Sucks it’s on our watch. But best to make the most of it. #NaziPunkFuckOff.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Watching it unfold before me and still I’m baffled. This all still doesn’t make any sense.
clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Your first amendment only applies to congress and legislative bodies at state and municipal levels. Private citizens and corporations technically can do whatever they want.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Because the public, apart from maybe one kid in Utah, is just sitting there allowing it.
pika@lemmy.today 5 months ago
and the media just repeats it as if nothing of any note is going on.
Mainstream media at least. Thankfully, Arstechnica and The Verge have been shouting from the rooftops at how unconstitutional and fascist the trump regime is being.
dickalan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I also heard Vogue magazine is actually not afraid to criticize as well
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well the media is owned by them so…
Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 5 months ago
I don't care for TikTok, whatever shakes them up and dismantles their foundation. TikTok is just a degradation to society, regardless who has it.