Who asked for a 50% stake in the company.

Yep. But this doesn’t answer their question. I’m rooting for a Tik Tok CEO vs Meta CEO battle Royale at the inauguration.

Because they are distributed by a company that is owned by Bytedance. You know. The people who own Tik Tok.

Large businesses literally operate in conflict with the law until the law directly forces consequences, usually in monetary form. So, until they get caught and are forced not to do the thing. Explain to me why this is any different.

Sigh. H. R. 7521 stipulates that the POTUS must make the determination using data supplied from several federal agencies etc that an app or service violates the terms laid out in the law. Then a formal investigation will be launched by the AG’s office and if that investigation finds that the app or service is in violation of the law that app or service will be added to a list of apps or services not allowed to be disseminated to the public via American based app stores. That app or service does have the right to appeal the decision within a specific time frame and appeals will be handled by the appropriate district court. At that point if they win the appeal they continue to operate. If they lose the appeal they can do what is called a qualified divestiture so that they would no longer be operating in conflict with the law. Or they can do what Tik Tok did and remove access without the law even being enforced.

So, yes, Trump can just not name Tik Tok as in violation of the law, the AG won’t investigate it, and nothing will come of it.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text

Tik Tok removed platform access from their US userbase voluntarily.

This was their choice.

The law is literally not even being enforced.

"Thank you for responding. It’s not nearly as polarizing as you suggest once you look at the numbers.

The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) was advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 20, 2022, with a 16-6 bipartisan vote.

Senators who voted in favor (Yes):

Democrats:

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

Senator Christopher Coons (D-DE)

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)

Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI)

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA)

Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA)

Republicans:

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)

Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC)

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)

Senators who voted against (No):

Republicans:

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE)

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO)

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)

Now tell us again how the “bipartisan” bill where EVERY NO VOTE IS REPUBLICAN is evidence that the Democrats are not committed to antitrust reform?

Schumer didn’t oppose the bill. You know very well that he made a strategic decision to not bring the bill to a vote because the Silicon Valley tech bros opposed the bill and THANKS TO CITIZENS UNITED, their money is SPEECH.

The people who brought you that decision were ALL REPUBLICAN appointees. Every single one.

In a 50/50 divided Senate (with two independents in the D column but Sinema and Manchin working against the caucus), there was a POLITICAL REALITY to contend with. Sadly, the money screws up everyone.

You are 100% wrong about this alleged reversal of “little guy” roles, and you seem to be deliberately obtuse about the facts."

This is a quote directly from the reddit thread where he made his secondary statement after the first one on shitter went viral. Context is important and he still has yet to actually answer to this.

They have a point. I’m an elder millennial and I abhor being sent a video. I prefer text based news, and usually don’t intentionally click videos. But on the other hand, that’s probably more because I have to be in the right setup to watch a video (where I can dedicate my attention to it without disturbing anyone or being disturbed), and so my preference is text.

Notebooks that do this exist. What’s so revolutionary about a pen and app?

https://getrocketbook.com/

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2024/11/04/how-gerrymandering-could-help-deliver-the-presidency-to-donald-trump/

Technically you can. But there’s more to it than simply drawing up districts to influence the Electoral College.

Doing this to combat bots like they aren’t also using bots to scrape data from the internet is interesting.

I wonder how this affects modified/custom search engines (like udm14).

I agree generally with what this says. However, in the most recent ban in Australia, we don’t even know how they’re going to make this law enforceable, and VPN’s do still work at the moment. The people it detrimentally effects havebeen given a headstart here and they know it. VPN’s are just the tip of the iceberg.

ROFL They aren’t a solution. But they will be the solution for anyone wanting to get around them.

They are throwing a tantrum in the stupidest way possible.

This comment is not the original. He changed it.

https://archive.ph/quYyb