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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

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".

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_ban_TikTok_in_the_United_States#Biden_administration_(2021%E2%80%932025)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Small correction, TikTok did not suppress BLM, although it did ban the phrase White Lives Matter, more accurately TikTok has always been actively suppressing Black creators in general. It still is, too. Which is just on brand for those CCP fucks and Tankies like yourself.

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