Tomorrow Trump becomes the commander in cheif of the executive branch, the branch explicitly in charge of enforcing the law. The concept of salutary neglect is not new to America, and I don’t think much could stop him if he decided to simply not enforce the law as written. As you point out, it would not be the first time the country played by it’s own rules made up on the spot.

I can be very critical of the fediverse, especially where I want it to do better, but I think stagnation isn’t the right word I think ‘maintaining’ fits more. The fediverse isn’t beholden to the grow or die model capitalist projects need and it remains a space that is unique enough to warrant people coming back here, or coming here for certain reasons or content or whatever. I think the model to hope for would be continue maintaining and being ready for when the next group of people get fed up enough to follow through and come here (fediverse in general)

Tiktok went dark voluntarily, I don’t think the US even has the infrastructure to enforce the ban. So yes, all he has to do is tell the CEO to turn it back on and tell the app stores not to delist it. As Cheif of the executive branch, enforcement of the laws is your purview.

The current Ban was not brought into motion by Trump, the current Ban started being discussed in congress in 2024, trumps efforts fell apart, shockingly enough. https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-timeline-ban-biden-india-d3219a32de913f8083612e71ecf1f428

Which means they’ve legislated themselves into a game of whack a mole. Without true regulations all they can do is wait for the next mole to pop up.

Lmfao oh man because AMD wasn’t encroaching enough on intels market share, make your brand even more political than it already is. Hitching their trailer to a beneficiary of apartheid is notoriously on brand for them though, so there’s that.

That man is as close to sub human as real humans can be.

Wild that in the article they mention Isreal has killed more than three times as many journalists as China has jailed. These numbers seem raw to me too, meaning not per capita. If Isreal was as populous as China and continued arresring Journalists at the same per capita rate they would have arrested over 6,500 journalist last year to get a sense of the absolutely wild difference in scale.

Even when you vote Democrat, you get what Republicans want anyway. Resist libs can’t even bother to resist anymore.

Funny how when you rob or even kill people with a spreadsheet, it just doesn’t count.

Saw someone joke that if companies really did need more masculine energy that it would be really bad news for Zuck

They must have learned that from the banks. Same playbook, all platitudes designed to not even take effect until the current leadership has bailed on the company with massive golden parachutes.

It sad really, I visited a friend there and theres some really good people there trying to change things politically but constantly the govenrment or the courts change the bar to defeat their efforts. They need someone to do whatever Ben Wikler did to pull Wisconsin away from its anti representative and gerrymandering efforrs.

Yeah as far as I know China still buys data from the US and I don’t think anyone is trying to stop that, I’m not sure how much differnt the data they collect themselves would be. Banning it from government devices was definetly warranted, but I still dont know how the US would enforce the civilian ban if Tiktok didn’t voluntarily shut down the service as they plan to on the 19th. Also in the court case the US shared sercret evidence neither the public nor tiktoks attorney’s were allowed to see. I’m not keen on trusting evidence they intentionally hide when they still allow our data to end up in China anyway.

https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-timeline-ban-biden-india-d3219a32de913f8083612e71ecf1f428

The ban that Trump tried fell apart, the current pending ban didnt even start being discussed until March 2024, before then any threat of ban was gone. Sure he tried but none of the current legislation is due to Trump. This one came years after he left office.

Stake another election on that and they’ll reap what they sew.

You’d think a guy like that would understand how theives work more. Perhaps the disconnect comes from him not thinking he is one.

Thats what I mean about the optics. We should know by now more than most are low information voters. They’re going to remember a Biden WH pushing the ban and a Trump WH saving their favorite app. Even independent of Trumps rhetoric that’s going to be the take away by many.

More shitty optics for Democrats imo. A poorly thought out ban that some question if it could even be enforced over something the younger generation loves is now posed to be reversed by Trump. This costs the party youth voters, probably another case of Dems taking a demographic for granted. In 2 years the dems will wonder why the youth vote didnt save them at midterms and all but their most stalwart apologists will laugh at them.

edit: Schumer agrees

Refering to all school ICE agents as ICE-S from now on, seems ideologically fitting.