In addition to the TikTok platform promoting conservatives and other anti-Biden sentiment, which they later did yet again in Germany for the AFD, they also voluntarily shut their own app down for the election and blamed Biden for it, then later turned their services back on and thanked Trump.
Trump’s smiling face was plastered all over Tankie communities like ML and Hexbear.
Trump is the only POTUS to ever speak so fondly of Xi Jinping, of Kim Jong Un, of Putin. When Jinping first officially ended his own term limits, Trump sincerely congratulated him and asked about doing the same thing in the USA.
China, including Xi Jinping himself, congratulated Trump in turn. Some Chinese celebrated, they believe that the rise of Trump is the Fall of the West and therefor the Rise of China, because they inherently do not believe in coexistence.
Ah yes, thank you, I had forgotten that the whole TikTok saga counts as explicit and open assistance. Really quite disappointing for us China enthusiasts, I can tell you.
Trump wanted to ban it during his first term after TT users organized RSVPing a Trump event he booked an entire stadium for. TT responded by hiring a bunch of natsec ghouls to run moderation, and someone in Trump’s staff did the very basic math of “promoting a ban of popular thing hurts election chances and has literally no benefits”.
Its weird how you’re rewriting history as if the democrats weren’t pushing a ban under Biden, complete with a confused Pelosi going “We’re going to make Tik Tok, Tic Tac Toe!”, and 80% of Lemmy supporting it, as if it wasn’t going to decrease dem’s own voter turnout.
According to your own link the bill was proposed by Trump, passed with Bipartisan support, and was unenforceable until after Biden would long since be gone from office.
What are you claiming I rewrote? What specifically do you think was incorrect about my summary?
The democrats were pushing hard for a tiktok ban during Biden’s entire term. You are rewriting history as if Tiktok shutting down preemptively wasn’t in response to a ban that was going to hit in a couple months under the Biden regime.
There isn’t anything “preemptive” about it, the Chinese dictatorship used it to interfere in US elections and the result of that interference is the Trump administration.
If that was true, they wouldn’t have tried to toady up to the state department by hiring a bunch of natsec ghouls and suppressing divisive content like BLM after Trump started chirping about banning them. It was dumb when Trump tried and the users didn’t like that, it was even dumber for the Biden admin to see this, and then do it themselves.
Haven’t heard of this one, just the mountain of evidence for Russia doing it - got any sources?
In addition to the TikTok platform promoting conservatives and other anti-Biden sentiment, which they later did yet again in Germany for the AFD, they also voluntarily shut their own app down for the election and blamed Biden for it, then later turned their services back on and thanked Trump.
Trump’s smiling face was plastered all over Tankie communities like ML and Hexbear.
Trump is the only POTUS to ever speak so fondly of Xi Jinping, of Kim Jong Un, of Putin. When Jinping first officially ended his own term limits, Trump sincerely congratulated him and asked about doing the same thing in the USA.
China, including Xi Jinping himself, congratulated Trump in turn. Some Chinese celebrated, they believe that the rise of Trump is the Fall of the West and therefor the Rise of China, because they inherently do not believe in coexistence.
Ah yes, thank you, I had forgotten that the whole TikTok saga counts as explicit and open assistance. Really quite disappointing for us China enthusiasts, I can tell you.
There is betting on a dark horse and then there is betting on an apocalypse horse.
Biden was in the process of banning it.
Trump wanted to ban it during his first term after TT users organized RSVPing a Trump event he booked an entire stadium for. TT responded by hiring a bunch of natsec ghouls to run moderation, and someone in Trump’s staff did the very basic math of “promoting a ban of popular thing hurts election chances and has literally no benefits”.
Congress was in the process of banning all data collection which operated for a list of adversarial nations maintained by the Pentagon.
Biden promised not to shut it down during the campaign.
Literally nobody went into TikTok HQ and forced them to turn off and then on again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_ban_TikTok_in_the_United_States#Biden_administration_(2021–2025)
Its weird how you’re rewriting history as if the democrats weren’t pushing a ban under Biden, complete with a confused Pelosi going “We’re going to make Tik Tok, Tic Tac Toe!”, and 80% of Lemmy supporting it, as if it wasn’t going to decrease dem’s own voter turnout.
According to your own link the bill was proposed by Trump, passed with Bipartisan support, and was unenforceable until after Biden would long since be gone from office.
What are you claiming I rewrote? What specifically do you think was incorrect about my summary?
The democrats were pushing hard for a tiktok ban during Biden’s entire term. You are rewriting history as if Tiktok shutting down preemptively wasn’t in response to a ban that was going to hit in a couple months under the Biden regime.
There isn’t anything “preemptive” about it, the Chinese dictatorship used it to interfere in US elections and the result of that interference is the Trump administration.
TikTok was a weapon from its inception.
If that was true, they wouldn’t have tried to toady up to the state department by hiring a bunch of natsec ghouls and suppressing divisive content like BLM after Trump started chirping about banning them. It was dumb when Trump tried and the users didn’t like that, it was even dumber for the Biden admin to see this, and then do it themselves.