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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by imbnwa on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:35PM (#35367593)
>Remember a month ago when everyone's feed had a video in it from the TikTok CEO encouraging people to side with TikTok.

Remember how Elon makes it a point to stick himself into everybody's Twitter feed and even fired a guy for not maximizing this further?

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by dsfyu404ed on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:36PM (#35375404)
The establishment can squash Elon if he gets so far out of line that it pisses a critical mass of them off. He's a US Citizen. His business assets are in the US (mostly). They can get at him so long as some large subset of "they" is ok enough with it.

They can't do that with "hypothetical Chinese Elon" so long as said Elon remains in good standing with the powers that be there.

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by imbnwa on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:17PM (#35376072)
The establishment will give him carte blanche if Musk's Twitter purchase proves out for the GOP Presidential election
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