TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Republicans obviously take majority responsibility for this turd of a deal and the corrupt shifting of TikTok ownership to Trump’s buddies. But it can’t be overstated what an own-goal supporting this whole dumb thing was for Democrats, who not only helped Trump’s friends steal partial ownership of TikTok, they saber-rattled over a ban during an election season where they desperately needed young people to vote.

  As I’ve spent years arguing, if these folks were all so concerned about U.S. consumer privacy, they should have passed a functional modern internet privacy law applying to all U.S. companies and their executives.

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• SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The shittiest possible outcome is what the Trump admin is all about.

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So true

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What MySpace and other social content networks taught us was that most of the value was when young people treated them as outlets for self-expression. That’s what made those places new and cool. Once the sites got corporatized, they gradually degraded into irrelevance.

  Guess we’ll see.

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  • ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’ll see… We’ll see…
    * Cue accordion hands *

    Accordion playing trump

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• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did anyone honestly expect anything good to come from the TikTok deal?

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• BarbedDentalFloss@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe this shitslurry of a deal will stain the platform with enough GOP stink that even the most brainrotted kids will leave it behind for less foul smelling alternatives

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  • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They won’t, they’re addicted (I say this as a sporadic TT user). Look at how shit FB has gotten, yet people still hang around.

    The only positive for TT for me personally was that the bot problem wasn’t as bad on it compared to other social media. I bet that will change pretty quickly.

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    • Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think Xitter is the better example. It had a very sharp worsening as a platform, and yet, somehow, still remains very relevant.

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  • Cybersteel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The younguns skew right nowadays due to podcasters like Tate and Rogan.

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• flamiera@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good, because fuck that platform and its parasitic hold on society.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh this is going to do nothing to make TikTok better in any way, or cause it’s downfall.

    It just lets Trump’s friends make money from it now.

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    • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Having even more propaganda control is the true problem.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Everyone just looked the other way while Trump and his cronies repeatedly ignored deadlines and hammered away at the transfer.

  I’m so tired of this blatant corruption.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Of course it is a shitty and shady deal. What did you expect from a government-backed deal?

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• Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Welcome to the era of media that cannot die.

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• NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So will Americans have their own great firewalled tiktok then? Wondering about how content will be shared between the US and the rest of the Anglosphere

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• webkitten@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tiktok US deal; this is just for the US users. Tiktok global doesn’t change.

  Essentially the US just siloed all the US users together and cut them off from the rest of the world and they’re about to find out just how little of the US were on Tiktok.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ellison needs to be thrown in prison when this nightmare comes to an end

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